The effect of pneumonia on short-term outcomes and cost of care after head and neck cancer surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1994-2004

  Semenov, Yevgeniy R ^a   Starmer, Heather M ^a   Gourin, Christine G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; dysphagia; head and neck neoplasms; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; Pneumonia; pulmonary disease; surgery; ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FISTULA; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MAXILLA RESECTION; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEROMA; SHOCK; TONSILLECTOMY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARYLAND; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865614563     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23446     Document Type: Article

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