Specialists achieve better outcomes than generalists for lung cancer surgery

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 675-680

  Silvestri, Gerard A ^a,b,d   Handy, John ^a   Lackland, Daniel ^b   Corley, Elizabeth ^c   Reed, Carolyn E ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Office of Research and Statistics   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalist; Lobectomy; Lung cancer; Outcomes; Pneumonectomy; Specialist; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031710736     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.3.675     Document Type: Article

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