Measuring the Quality of Surgical Care and Setting Benchmarks for Training Using Intuitive Data Recorder Technology

MASTERY will create a data collection platform to capture, annotate and analyse digital point of care data relating to surgeon's performance during live surgery. This is a multi-centre prospective cohort study involving patients undergoing robotic assisted surgery for prostate, colorectal, lung, gynaecological, hepatobiliary, and ear, nose & throat tumours. In this study, automated digital point of care data relating to the surgeons' performance will be collected via the Intuitive Data Recorder (IDR) device (Intuitive Surgical Inc, USA). Data collection will also encompass surgeon characteristics, patient characteristics, 30-day clinical outcomes including surgical complications, reoperation, length of stay and hospital readmission. This will also include collection of baseline, 30- and 90-day patient reported outcomes data.

MASTERY is the first study of the RCS Robotics Working Group and aims to initially recruit 500 patients across 13 centres in United Kingdom from January 2021.