The VATS Lobectomist: Analysis of Costs and Alterations in the Traditional Surgical Working Pattern in the Modern Surgical Unit

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-287

  Walker, William S ^a   Casali, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METASTASIS; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 48449096392     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2008.06.003     Document Type: Review

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