Socioeconomic Factors Are Associated With Readmission After Lobectomy for Early Stage Lung Cancer

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1660-1667

  Medbery, Rachel L ^a   Gillespie, Theresa W ^a   Liu, Yuan ^b,c   Nickleach, Dana C ^c   Lipscomb, Joseph ^a,b   Sancheti, Manu S ^a   Pickens, Allan ^a   Force, Seth D ^a   Fernandez, Felix G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEYO COMORBIDITY SCORE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; URBAN AREA; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; FOLLOW UP; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRENDS;

AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84979784249     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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