Assessing the relationships between health-related quality of life and postoperative length of hospital stay after oesophagectomy for cancer of the oesophagus and the gastro-oesophageal junction

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 525-533

  Nafteux, Philippe ^a   Durnez, Joke ^a   Moons, Johnny ^a   Coosemans, Willy ^a   Decker, Georges ^a   Lerut, Toni ^a   Veer, Hans Van ^a   Leyn, Paul De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Oesophageal neoplasms; Oesophagectomy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE SCORE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

LENGTH OF STAY; OESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; OESOPHAGECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84882646860     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezt064     Document Type: Article

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