The quality metric prolonged length of stay misses clinically important adverse events

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 881-888

  Farjah, Farhood ^a   Lou, Feiran ^a   Rusch, Valerie W ^a   Rizk, Nabil P ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED LENGTH OF STAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW YORK CITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865230741     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.04.082     Document Type: Article

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