Postoperative mortality is an inadequate quality indicator for lung cancer resection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 973-979

  Hu, Yinin ^a   McMurry, Timothy L ^a   Wells, Kristen M ^a   Isbell, James M ^a   Stukenborg, George J ^a   Kozower, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG BILOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SEGMENTECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WEDGE RESECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84896737649     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.12.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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