Performing robotic lobectomy and segmentectomy: Cost, profitability, and outcomes

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 203-209

  Nasir, Basil S ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^a   Minnich, Douglas J ^a   Wei, Ben ^a   Cerfolio, Robert J ^b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; ROBOTIC LOBECTOMY; ROBOTIC SEGMENTECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903884792     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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