Hospital readmission is associated with poor survival after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 292-297

  Fernandez, Felix G ^a   Khullar, Onkar ^a   Force, Seth D ^a   Jiang, Renjian ^b   Pickens, Allan ^a   Howard, David ^b   Ward, Kevin ^b   Gillespie, Theresa ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POPULATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84920599814     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.07.052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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