Ninety-day costs of video-assisted thoracic surgery versus open lobectomy for lung cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 191-196

  Farjah, Farhood ^a   Backhus, Leah M ^a   Varghese, Thomas K ^a   Mulligan, Michael S ^a   Cheng, Aaron M ^a   Alfonso Cristancho, Rafael ^a   Flum, David R ^a   Wood, Douglas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903899181     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.03.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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