Hideo Yasunaga
University of Tokyo Health Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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About
Hideo Yasunaga is a leading health services researcher whose work centers on the comparative effectiveness and safety of surgical technologies, particularly robotic-assisted surgery in urology and gynecology. His major contributions leverage large-scale, population-based databases—such as Japan’s Diagnosis Procedure Combination database and the DeSC database—to generate real-world evidence that directly informs clinical practice and health policy. Yasunaga’s landmark 2014 study on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy, which analyzed over 7,200 patients, provided crucial safety and cost data during the procedure’s initial national coverage in Japan, accumulating 34 citations. He has also pioneered comparative analyses of surgical outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse, demonstrating the value of robotic sacrocolpopexy while documenting re-treatment rates. Notably, Yasunaga’s work extends to international comparisons, including a head-to-head performance analysis of uro-oncological surgeries between the USA and Japan, highlighting differences in practice patterns and resource utilization. His research on geographic accessibility to robotic surgery has shaped understanding of patient behavior and healthcare equity. With a cumulative impact of over 70 citations across his most-cited papers, Yasunaga is recognized as a pivotal figure in evidence-based surgical innovation and health policy evaluation.
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