====================================== Summary and licensing information ====================================== This code is for automated collection of the adverse event reports related to robotic surgical systems from the FDA MAUDE database and extraction of safety related information from the event narratives. For more information, please see the following publications: H. Alemzadeh, J. Raman, N. Leveson, R. K. Iyer, “Safety Implications of Robotic Surgery: A Study of 13 Years of FDA Data on da Vinci Surgical Systems,” CSL Technical Report, Nov. 2013: http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~alemzad1/papers/UILU-ENG-13-2208.pdf. J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper in Adult Cardiac Surgery at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), Jan. 2014. H. Alemzadeh, R. K. Iyer, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, N. Leveson, J. Raman, “Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data,” Avialable at: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0151470 Copyright (C) 2015 University of Illinois Board of Trustees, DEPEND Research Group, Homa Alemzadeh This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.