Long-term follow-up of high-risk patients in the national emphysema treatment trial

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1782-1789

  Kaplan, Robert M ^a   Sun, Qiankun ^a   Naunheim, Keith S ^a   Ries, Andrew L ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF WELL BEING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO SHORTNESS OF BREATH QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STERNOTOMY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922379442     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.06.031     Document Type: Article

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