Hospital readmission after pulmonary lobectomy is not affected by surgical approach

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 393-398

  Assi, Roland ^a   Wong, Daniel J ^a   Boffa, Daniel J ^a   Detterbeck, Frank C ^a   Wang, Zuoheng ^a   Chupp, Geoffrey L ^b   Kim, Anthony W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CARBON MONOXIDE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARBON MONOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERALIZED MUSCLE WEAKNESS; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; OPEN THORACOTOMY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURAL INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; LUNG RESECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84921842027     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.10.014     Document Type: Article

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