Surgeon Specialty Is Associated With Better Outcomes: The Facts Speak for Themselves

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1393-1395

  Wood, Douglas E ^a   Farjah, Farhood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

CANCER REGISTRY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DECORTICATION; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENERAL SURGERY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLITICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TEACHING; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 70449719240     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.09.012     Document Type: Editorial

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