Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Is Less Costly and Morbid Than Open Lobectomy: A Retrospective Multiinstitutional Database Analysis

Background The Premier Perspective Database (Premier Inc, Charlotte, NC) was used to compare hospital costs and perioperative outcomes for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and open lobectomy procedures in the United States. Methods Eligible patients underwent a lobectomy for cancer by a t...

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Published in:	The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 93; no. 4; pp. 1027 - 1032
Main Authors:	Swanson, Scott J., MD, Meyers, Bryan F., MD, Gunnarsson, Candace L., EdD, Moore, Matthew, MHA, Howington, John A., MD, Maddaus, Michael A., MD, McKenna, Robert J., MD, Miller, Daniel L., MD
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01-04-2012 Elsevier
Subjects:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Biological and medical sciences Cardiology. Vascular system Cardiothoracic Surgery Databases, Factual Female Humans Logistic Models Lung Neoplasms - surgery Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Morbidity Pneumology Pneumonectomy - economics Pneumonectomy - statistics & numerical data Retrospective Studies Surgery Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted - economics Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted - statistics & numerical data United States United States 10 Treatment Surgery Analysis Database Anesthesia Circulatory system Cardiology Lobectomy Retrospective
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