Impact of hospital volume on chest tube duration, length of stay, and mortality after lobectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1069-1074

  Otake, Hiroshi ^a   Yasunaga, Hideo ^b   Horiguchi, Hiromasa ^b   Matsutani, Noriyuki ^a   Matsuda, Shinya ^c   Ohe, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL VOLUME; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

AGED; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052794645     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.04.087     Document Type: Article

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