Surgeon heterogeneity significantly affects functional and oncologic outcomes after radical prostatectomy in the Swedish LAPPRO trial.

To evaluate how surgeon heterogeneity – the variation in outcomes between individual surgeons – influenced functional and oncologic outcomes after robot assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP) and retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP), and to assess whether surgeon heterogeneity affected the comparison between RALP and RRP.