This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Esther H Cha during the SS14: Robotics 1 Session on April 12 2018
Keyword(s): age, anal malignancy, chemotherapy, clinical trials, COLOR II trial, discharge, disposition, gender, infection rate, laparoscopic LAR, length of stay, LOS, minimally invasive techniques, morbidity, mortality, National Inpatient Sample, national trends, NIS database, oncologic, oncologic outcomes, open low anterior resection, postoperative complications, radiation therapy, rectal cancer, rectosigmoid cancer, resection, retrospective, robotic LAR, robotics 1 session, skilled nursing facilities, team, training, United States