Patient-Centered Quality Indicators for Pulmonary Resection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 927-932

  Cassivi, Stephen D ^a   Allen, Mark S ^a   Vanderwaerdt, Gregg D ^a   Ewoldt, Lori L ^a   Cordes, Mary E ^a   Wigle, Dennis A ^a   Nichols, Francis C ^a   Pairolero, Peter C ^a   Deschamps, Claude ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPIROMETRY; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SMOKING CESSATION; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 49549116471     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.021     Document Type: Article

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