Are Surgical Outcomes for Lung Cancer Resections Improved at Teaching Hospitals?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1015-1025

  Meguid, Robert A ^a   Brooke, Benjamin S ^a   Chang, David C ^a   Sherwood, J Timothy ^b   Brock, Malcolm V ^a   Yang, Stephen C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Mary Washington Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39149112508     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.09.046     Document Type: Article

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