PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Marius Hoogerboord AU - James Ellsmere AU - Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda AU - Carl Brown AU - Shiva Jayaraman AU - David Urbach AU - Sean Cleary TI - Laparoscopic colectomy: trends in implementation in Canada and globally AID - 10.1503/cjs.003118 DP - 2019 Apr 01 TA - Canadian Journal of Surgery PG - 139--141 VI - 62 IP - 2 4099 - http://canjsurg.ca/content/62/2/139.short 4100 - http://canjsurg.ca/content/62/2/139.full SO - CAN J SURG2019 Apr 01; 62 AB - Comparisons with other high-income countries suggest that Canada has been slower to adopt laparoscopic colectomy (LC). The Canadian Association of General Surgeons sought to evaluate the barriers to adoption of laparoscopic colon surgery and to propose potential intervention strategies to enhance the use of the procedure. Given the clinical benefits of laparoscopic surgery for patients, the increasing needs for surgical care and the desire of Canadian general surgeons to advance their specialty and enhance the care of their patients, it is an important priority to improve the utilization of LC.