Impact That Day of the Week has on Length of Stay for Video-assisted Lobectomy
| Autor: | Paul C. Lee, Kevin Hyman, David Zeltsman, Larry Glassman, Julissa Jurado, Stevan S. Pupovac |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms Time Factors Names of the days of the week 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Interquartile range Thursday medicine Humans Video assisted Single institution Pneumonectomy Retrospective Studies Retrospective review business.industry Thoracic Surgery Video-Assisted General Medicine Perioperative Length of Stay Surgery 030228 respiratory system Cardiothoracic surgery Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 33(3) |
| ISSN: | 1532-9488 |
| Popis: | We aimed to analyze the effect that the day of the week for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy has on length of stay . A retrospective review identified all patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy at a single institution from January 2016 to July 2017. In total, 208 patients were divided into 2 groups based on timing of their operation: Operations performed on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday were defined as "early in the week" and those performed on Thursday or Friday were defined as "late in the week." We then propensity-matched 81 pairs of patients and analyzed perioperative data and short-term clinical outcomes. A total of 208 patients underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy during the study period. Length of stay was significantly decreased by 2.0 days (P |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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