Research progress and prospect of objective structured assessment of technical skills (OSATS) in the quality control of thoracic surgical procedures / 中国胸心血管外科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

@#It has been absent from an accepted criteria for normalization and quality control of the thoracic surgery until now. The ideal assessing instrument which will be used to evaluate the technical skills and surgical procedures should present a few vital characterizations below objectivity, speciality in the content, detailed structure, and quantifiability. Objective structured assessment of technical skills (OSATS) has developed as a reliable method of surgical skills measurement. This article focuses on the history of OSATS and its prospect in the thoracic surgery area by reviewing relevant literatures.