Patrick Moran
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Patrick Moran is a leading health technology assessment researcher whose work has fundamentally shaped the adoption of robotic surgery in gynecologic and urologic care. His primary research areas include surgical outcomes research, health economics, and evidence synthesis methodology. Moran’s major contributions center on rigorous comparative effectiveness studies of robot-assisted surgery versus traditional approaches. His landmark 2013 systematic review and meta-analysis on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (123 citations) provided crucial evidence comparing robotic, open, and laparoscopic techniques, establishing benchmarks for surgical outcomes. He extended this work to gynecologic surgery with his highly cited meta-analysis on robot-assisted hysterectomy (64 citations), and conducted pioneering economic evaluations, including a cost-minimization analysis for hysterectomy in Ireland (37 citations). Notably, Moran advanced meta-analytic methodology by demonstrating the importance of prediction intervals over confidence intervals when incorporating treatment effects into economic models (28 citations), a methodological contribution that has influenced how health economists assess the range of potential treatment effects. His work provides the evidence base that hospitals and policymakers use to make multimillion-dollar decisions about robotic surgery adoption.
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