Diffusion of surgical innovation among patients with kidney cancer

BACKGROUND Despite their potential benefits to patients with kidney cancer, the adoption of partial nephrectomy and laparoscopy has been gradual and asymmetric. To clarify whether this trend reflects differences in kidney cancer patients or differences in surgeon practice styles, the authors compared the magnitude of surgeon‐attributable variance in the use of partial nephrectomy and laparoscopic radical nephrectomy with that attributable to...