Impact of a fast-track esophagectomy protocol on esophageal cancer patient outcomes and hospital charges

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1114-1123

  Shewale, Jitesh B ^a   Correa, Arlene M ^a   Baker, Carla M ^a   Villafane Ferriol, Nicole ^b   Hofstetter, Wayne L ^a   Jordan, Victoria S ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^c   Lewis, Katie M ^a   Mehran, Reza J ^a   Summers, Barbara L ^a   Schaub, Diane ^a   Wilks, Sonia A ^a   Swisher, Stephen G ^a   Rice, David C ^a   Roth, Jack A ^a   Sepesi, Boris ^a   Vaporciyan, Ara A ^a   Walsh, Garret L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FAST TRACK ESOPHAGECTOMY PROTOCOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; J TUBE INFECTION; J TUBE MALFUNCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS STENOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING; ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECONOMICS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946493314     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000971     Document Type: Article

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