Instruments for the evaluation of ergonomics in surgery.
Ergonomics in the operating room (OR) remains an unsolved problem for both users and engineers. For the design of ergonomic products evaluating studies need to accompany the development process from the very beginning. For this purpose, ergonomic research provides a number of methods which are described and discussed in the present article.
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Section for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Ergonomics in Surgery Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen Tuebingen Germany.
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