Institutional report - Pulmonary: Risk-adjusted morbidity, mortality and failure-to-rescue models for internal provider profiling after major lung resection

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 92-96

  Brunelli, Alessandro ^a   Xiume, Francesco ^a   Al Refai, Majed ^a   Salati, Michele ^a   Marasco, Rita ^a   Sabbatini, Armando ^a  

^a Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lung cancer surgery; Morbidity; Mortality; Outcomes; Quality of care; Risk modelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33645543323     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2005.118703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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