What keeps postpulmonary resection patients in hospital?

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-89

  Bardell, T ^a   Petsikas, Dimiti ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Pneumonectomy; Pneumothorax; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE;

EID: 0037987857     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2003/610570     Document Type: Article

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