Does surgeon workload per day affect outcomes after pulmonary lobectomies?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 966-972

  Thomas, Mathew ^a   Allen, Mark S ^a   Wigle, Dennis A ^a   Shen, K Robert ^a   Cassivi, Stephen D ^a   Nichols III, Francis C ^a   Deschamps, Claude ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AIR LEAK; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHYLOTHORAX; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE ILEUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY INJURY; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE INJURY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865270105     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.04.099     Document Type: Article

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