Analyzing the influence of expanding multispecialty adoption of robotic surgery on robotic urologic care A decade-long assessment of two Canadian academic hospitals.

Introduction: Most robot-assisted surgery (RAS) systems in Canada are donor-funded, with constraints on implementation and access due to significant costs, among other factors. Herein, we evaluated the impact of the growing multispecialty use of RAS on urologic RAS access and outcomes in the past decade.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of all RAS performed by different surgical specialties in two high-volume academic hospitals between 2010 and 2019 (prior to the COVID pandemic).