Day surgery unit thoracic surgery: The first UK experience

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1047-1050

  Ghosh Dastidar, Michael B ^a   Deshpande, Ranjit P ^a   Rajagopal, Kailasam ^a   Andersen, Deborah ^a   Marrinan, Michael T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory surgery; Day surgery; Outpatient surgery; Surgery thoracic; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRAIN; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LUNG BIOPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; SURGEON; THORAX SURGERY; THORAX WALL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955602712     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.09.032     Document Type: Article

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