European guidelines on structure and qualification of general thoracic surgery

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 779-786

  Brunelli, Alessandro ^a   Falcoz, Pierre Emmanuel ^b   D'amico, Thomas ^c   Hansen, Henrik ^d   Lim, Eric ^e   Massard, Gilbert ^b   Rice, Thomas W ^f   Rocco, Gaetano ^g   Thomas, Pascal ^h   Van raemdonck, Dirk ⁱ   Congregado, Miguel ^j   Decaluwe, Herbert ⁱ   Grodzki, Tomasz ^k   Lerut, Toni ⁱ   Molnar, Thomas ^l   Salati, Michele ^m   Scarci, Marco ⁿ   Van Schil, Paul ^o   Varela, Gonzalo ^p   Venuta, Federico ^q   Melfi, Franca ^r   Gebitekin, Cengiz ^s   Kuzdzal, Jaroslaw ^t   Leschber, Gunda ^u   Opitz, Isabelle ^v   Papagiannopoulos, Kostas ^a   Patterson, Alec ^w   Ruffini, Enrico ^x   Klepetko, Walter ^y   Toker, Alper ^z   more..

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^h AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^j HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^k POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^m OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

ⁿ PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^o ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^p HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^q SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^r UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^s ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^t JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^u ELK Berlin Chest Hospital   (Germany)

^v UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^w WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^y MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^z ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

more..

Author keywords

Accreditation; Education; General thoracic surgery; Procedures; Professional affairs; Qualification; Structure

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GENERAL SURGERY; GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIALIZATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; SURGICAL WARD; TEACHER; TEACHING; THORAX SURGERY; EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS;

EUROPE; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; THORACIC SURGERY; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84898640190     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezu016     Document Type: Article

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