title: The evolution of laparoscopic surgery in routine health care.
abstract: While laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now widely used, diffusion of other laparoscopic surgical methods has been more modest. Uptake of most laparoscopic methods has been influenced by considerations of effectiveness compared with open surgery, competing minimally invasive therapies, and the inconvenience and cost of technical change.
authors.affiliation: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hailey
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D016526:Workload