The analysis of a prospective surgical database improves postoperative fast-tracking algorithms after pulmonary resection

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1173-1179

  Bryant, Ayesha S ^a   Cerfolio, Robert James ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFUSION; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMNOLENCE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64649090710     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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