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@article{Hughes-Hallett:2014:10.1097/SLA.0000000000000662,
author = {Hughes-Hallett, A and Mayer, E and Marcus, HJ and Cundy, T and Pratt, PJ and Parston, G and Vale, JA and Darzi, A},
doi = {10.1097/SLA.0000000000000662},
journal = {Annals of Surgery},
pages = {205--211},
title = {Quantifying innovation in surgery},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000000662},
volume = {260},
year = {2014}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the applicability of patents and publications as metrics of surgical technology and innovation; evaluate the historical relationship between patents and publications; develop a methodology that can be used to determine the rate of innovation growth in any given health care technology.Background: The study of health care innovation represents an emerging academic field, yet it is limited by a lack of valid scientific methods for quantitative analysis. This article explores and cross-validates 2 innovation metrics using surgical technology as an exemplar.Methods: Electronic patenting databases and the MEDLINE database were searched between 1980 and 2010 for “surgeon” OR “surgical” OR “surgery.” Resulting patent codes were grouped into technology clusters. Growth curves were plotted for these technology clusters to establish the rate and characteristics of growth.Results: The initial search retrieved 52,046 patents and 1,801,075 publications. The top performing technology cluster of the last 30 years was minimally invasive surgery. Robotic surgery, surgical staplers, and image guidance were the most emergent technology clusters. When examining the growth curves for these clusters they were found to follow an S-shaped pattern of growth, with the emergent technologies lying on the exponential phases of their respective growth curves. In addition, publication and patent counts were closely correlated in areas of technology expansion.Conclusions: This article demonstrates the utility of publically available patent and publication data to quantify innovations within surgical technology and proposes a novel methodology for assessing and forecasting areas of technological innovation.
AU - Hughes-Hallett,A
AU - Mayer,E
AU - Marcus,HJ
AU - Cundy,T
AU - Pratt,PJ
AU - Parston,G
AU - Vale,JA
AU - Darzi,A
DO - 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000662
EP - 211
PY - 2014///
SN - 1528-1140
SP - 205
TI - Quantifying innovation in surgery
T2 - Annals of Surgery
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000000662
UR - https://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/2014/08000/Quantifying_Innovation_in_Surgery.3.aspx
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/22131
VL - 260
ER -