The society of thoracic surgeons and the european society of thoracic surgeons general thoracic surgery databases: Joint standardization of variable definitions and terminology

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 368-376

  Fernandez, Felix G ^a   Falcoz, Pierre E ^b   Kozower, Benjamin D ^c   Salati, Michele ^d   Wright, Cameron D ^e   Brunelli, Alessandro ^f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Ospedali Riuniti Ancona   (Italy)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG RESECTION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; NOMENCLATURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THORACIC SURGERY DATABASE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; COOPERATION; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; UNITED STATES;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; THORACIC SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84920567500     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.104     Document Type: Article

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