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1. Full Text Ninety-day mortality after resection for lung cancer is nearly double 30-day mortality
by Pezzi, Christopher M., MD and Mallin, Katherine, PhD and Mendez, Andres Samayoa, MD and Greer Gay, Emmelle, PhD and Putnam, Joe B., MD
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The, ISSN 0022-5223, 2014, Volume 148, Issue 5, pp. 2269 - 2278
Objective To evaluate 30-day and 90-day mortality after major pulmonary resection for lung cancer including the relationship to hospital volume. Methods Major... 
Cardiothoracic Surgery | UNITED-STATES | SURVIVAL | SURGERY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | OPERATIVE MORTALITY | MORBIDITY | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | ADMINISTRATIVE DATA | VOLUME | RISK | PATIENT | IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY | Multivariate Analysis | United States - epidemiology | Age Factors | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Lung Neoplasms - pathology | Male | Postoperative Complications - mortality | Pneumonectomy - standards | Young Adult | Hospitals, High-Volume | Time Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Registries | Odds Ratio | Pneumonectomy - adverse effects | Comorbidity | Risk Factors | Treatment Outcome | Benchmarking - standards | Hospitals, Low-Volume | Adolescent | Sex Factors | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Aged | Quality Indicators, Health Care - standards | Health aspects | Lung cancer | Surgery | Mortality | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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2. Full Text Do cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute have better surgical outcomes?
by Birkmeyer, Nancy J. O and Goodney, Philip P and Stukel, Therese A and Hillner, Bruce E and Birkmeyer, John D
Cancer, ISSN 0008-543X, 02/2005, Volume 103, Issue 3, pp. 435 - 441
BACKGROUND The National Cancer Institute (NCI) designates cancer centers as regional centers of excellence in research and patient care. Although these centers... 
National Cancer Institute | patient care | survival rates | mortality rates | Survival rates | Mortality rates | Patient care | HOSPITAL MORTALITY | UNITED-STATES | SURGERY | PATIENT MORTALITY | ADMINISTRATIVE DATA | VOLUME | DEATHS | CLAIMS DATA | OPERATIVE MORTALITY | ONCOLOGY | COMORBIDITIES | Cystectomy - mortality | United States - epidemiology | Esophagectomy - mortality | Hospital Mortality | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Comorbidity | Gastrectomy - mortality | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Survival Rate | Cancer Care Facilities - statistics & numerical data | Pancreatectomy - mortality | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Aged | Colectomy - mortality | Odds Ratio | Care and treatment | Research | Patients | Patient outcomes | Cancer
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3. Full Text Impact of increasing age on cause-specific mortality and morbidity in patients with stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: A competing risks analysis
by Eguchi, Takashi and Bains, Sarina and Lee, Ming-Ching and Tan, Kay See and Hristov, Boris and Buitrago, Daniel H and Bains, Manjit S and Downey, Robert J and Huang, James and Isbell, James M and Park, Bernard J and Rusch, Valerie W and Jones, David R and Adusumilli, Prasad S
Journal of Clinical Oncology, ISSN 0732-183X, 01/2017, Volume 35, Issue 3, pp. 281 - 290
Purpose To perform competing risks analysis and determine short-and long-term cancer-and noncancer-specific mortality and morbidity in patients who had... 
DIFFUSING-CAPACITY | CO-MORBIDITY | SURGERY | OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE | LIMITED RESECTION | ONCOLOGY | LONG-TERM SURVIVAL | SURGICAL RESECTION | SCORING SYSTEM | ELDERLY-PATIENTS | SUBLOBAR RESECTION | Multivariate Analysis | Age Factors | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Lung Neoplasms - pathology | Male | Lung Neoplasms - physiopathology | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - physiopathology | Cause of Death | Recovery of Function | Forced Expiratory Volume | Time Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Female | Retrospective Studies | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - pathology | Pneumonectomy - adverse effects | Lung - pathology | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - surgery | Risk Assessment | Comorbidity | Risk Factors | Proportional Hazards Models | Linear Models | Logistic Models | Treatment Outcome | Lung - physiopathology | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - mortality | Disease-Free Survival | Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | New York City - epidemiology | Aged | Lung - surgery | Geriatric Oncology | Prognostic Studies | ORIGINAL REPORTS | Surgery | Lung
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4. Full Text Racial Disparities in Operative Outcomes After Major Cancer Surgery in the United States
by Sukumar, Shyam and Ravi, Praful and Sood, Akshay and Gervais, Mai-Kim and Hu, Jim C and Kim, Simon P and Menon, Mani and Roghmann, Florian and Sammon, Jesse D and Sun, Maxine and Trinh, Vincent Q and Trinh, Quoc-Dien
World Journal of Surgery, ISSN 0364-2313, 3/2015, Volume 39, Issue 3, pp. 634 - 643
Numerous studies have recorded racial disparities in access to care for major cancers. We investigate contemporary national disparities in the quality of... 
Medicine & Public Health | Cardiac Surgery | Surgery | Abdominal Surgery | Vascular Surgery | Thoracic Surgery | General Surgery | REFERRAL PATTERNS | MORTALITY | SURVIVAL | SURGERY | LUNG-CANCER | COLORECTAL-CANCER | RACE | VOLUME | PANCREATIC RESECTION | SURGICAL OUTCOMES | CARE | Perioperative Care | Cystectomy - mortality | United States - epidemiology | Hysterectomy - mortality | Esophagectomy - mortality | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Health Status Disparities | Neoplasms - surgery | Humans | Middle Aged | Healthcare Disparities - ethnology | Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data | Male | Postoperative Complications - mortality | Blood Transfusion - statistics & numerical data | Socioeconomic Factors | Young Adult | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Colectomy - mortality | Retrospective Studies | Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data | Cross-Sectional Studies | Gastrectomy - mortality | European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data | Treatment Outcome | Hospital Mortality - ethnology | Pancreatectomy - mortality | African Americans - statistics & numerical data | Adolescent | Postoperative Complications - ethnology | Aged | Prostatectomy - mortality | Hysterectomy | Analysis | Mortality | Cancer
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5. Full Text A Decade of Mortality Reductions in Major Oncologic Surgery: The Impact of Centralization and Quality Improvement
by Peter A. Learn and Peter B. Bach
Medical Care, ISSN 0025-7079, 12/2010, Volume 48, Issue 12, pp. 1041 - 1049
Background: For more than a decade, health policy groups have recommended concentrating care for certain high-risk oncologic procedures into high-volume... 
Health outcomes | Lungs | Mortality | Pancreatectomy | Esophagectomy | Surgeons | Oncology | Gastrectomy | Surgical procedures | Surgical specialties | esophagectomy | pancreatectomy | centralization | volume-outcome | UNITED-STATES | CANCER-SURGERY | ADMINISTRATIVE DATA | PANCREATIC RESECTION | VETERANS-AFFAIRS | SURGICAL-PROCEDURES | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | OPERATIVE MORTALITY | HOSPITAL VOLUME | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES | HEALTH-CARE | VOLUME-OUTCOME RELATIONSHIP | United States - epidemiology | Quality Improvement - statistics & numerical data | Esophagectomy - mortality | Outcome Assessment (Health Care) | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Neoplasms - surgery | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Surgical Procedures, Operative - utilization | Hepatectomy - mortality | Centralized Hospital Services - standards | Hospital Mortality - trends | Statistics, Nonparametric | Adult | Female | Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data | Centralized Hospital Services - organization & administration | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Neoplasms - mortality | Pancreatectomy - mortality | Oncology Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data | Surgery Department, Hospital - statistics & numerical data | Aged | Surgery Department, Hospital - standards
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6. Full Text Socioeconomic Status and Surgical Mortality in the Elderly
by Nancy J. O. Birkmeyer and Niya Gu and Onur Baser and Arden M. Morris and John D. Birkmeyer
Medical Care, ISSN 0025-7079, 9/2008, Volume 46, Issue 9, pp. 893 - 899
Background: Although racial disparities in the quality of surgical care are well described, the impact of socioeconomic status on operative mortality is... 
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7. Full Text STS Database Risk Models: Predictors of Mortality and Major Morbidity for Lung Cancer Resection
by Kozower, Benjamin D., MD, MPH and Sheng, Shubin, PhD and O'Brien, Sean M., PhD and Liptay, Michael J., MD and Lau, Christine L., MD and Jones, David R., MD and Shahian, David M., MD and Wright, Cameron D., MD
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, ISSN 0003-4975, 2010, Volume 90, Issue 3, pp. 875 - 883
Background The aim of this study is to create models for perioperative risk of lung cancer resection using the STS GTDB (Society of Thoracic Surgeons General... 
Surgery | Cardiothoracic Surgery | SURGERY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | THORACOTOMY | ADJUSTMENT MODEL | LENGTH-OF-STAY | PULMONARY RESECTION | THORACIC-SURGERY DATABASE | SOCIETY | CESSATION | INDUCTION THERAPY | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | COMPLICATIONS | MULTIPLE IMPUTATION | Pneumonectomy - adverse effects | Prognosis | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Humans | Male | Postoperative Complications - epidemiology | Models, Statistical | Postoperative Complications - mortality | Thoracic Surgery | Societies, Medical | Female | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Databases, Factual | Databases | Lung cancer | Patient outcomes | Oncology, Experimental | Medical societies | Risk assessment | Mortality | Surgeons | Research | Public health | Cancer
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8. Full Text Comparative Effectiveness of 5 Treatment Strategies for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Elderly
by Shirvani, Shervin M., MD and Jiang, Jing, MS and Chang, Joe Y., MD, PhD and Welsh, James W., MD and Gomez, Daniel R., MD and Swisher, Stephen, MD and Buchholz, Thomas A., MD and Smith, Benjamin D., MD
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, ISSN 0360-3016, 2012, Volume 84, Issue 5, pp. 1060 - 1070
Purpose The incidence of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) among older adults is expected to increase because of demographic trends and computed... 
Radiology | Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine | MORTALITY | RADIOTHERAPY | ONCOLOGY | RESECTION | RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING | RADIATION-THERAPY | Radiotherapy - mortality | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Humans | Lung Neoplasms - pathology | Male | Aged, 80 and over | Female | Radiosurgery - methods | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - pathology | SEER Program | Smoking - mortality | Risk Factors | Proportional Hazards Models | Treatment Outcome | Lung Neoplasms - therapy | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - mortality | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - therapy | Pneumonectomy - methods | Analysis of Variance | Radiotherapy - methods | Survival Analysis | Watchful Waiting | Aged | Radiosurgery - mortality | Lung - surgery | Neoplasm Staging | Care and treatment | Medicare | Nuclear radiation | Oncology, Experimental | Universities and colleges | Research | Comparative analysis | Lung cancer, Non-small cell | Radiotherapy | Cancer | SURGERY | DIAGNOSIS | PATIENTS | DISTRIBUTION | NEOPLASMS | LUNGS | DEATH | COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS | COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY | HEALTH HAZARDS | RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE | REGRESSION ANALYSIS | EPIDEMIOLOGY
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9. Full Text Time-to-readmission and Mortality After High-risk Surgery
by Gonzalez, Andrew A and Abdelsattar, Zaid M and Dimick, Justin B and Dev, Shantanu and Birkmeyer, John D and Ghaferi, Amir A
Annals of Surgery, ISSN 0003-4932, 07/2015, Volume 262, Issue 1, pp. 53 - 59
OBJECTIVES:To determine if mortality varies by time-to-readmission (TTR). BACKGROUND:Although readmissions reduction is a national health care priority, little... 
Health service research | Operative | Hospital quality | Clinical outcomes | Readmissions | SURGERY | EARLY HOSPITAL READMISSION | PERFORMANCE | ADMINISTRATIVE DATA | VOLUME | health service research | readmissions | INPATIENT SURGERY | operative | FAILURE | clinical outcomes | OPERATIVE MORTALITY | RESCUE | hospital quality | COMPLICATIONS | COMPOSITE MEASURES | Pneumonectomy - adverse effects | United States - epidemiology | Cross-Sectional Studies | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Humans | Medicare - statistics & numerical data | Male | Postoperative Complications - mortality | Coronary Artery Bypass - adverse effects | Pneumonectomy - statistics & numerical data | Coronary Artery Bypass - mortality | Time Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Colectomy - statistics & numerical data | Coronary Artery Bypass - statistics & numerical data | Female | Aged | Colectomy - mortality | Retrospective Studies | Colectomy - adverse effects | Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data
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10. Full Text Completion pneumonectomy: a multicentre international study on 165 patients
by Cardillo, Giuseppe and Galetta, Domenico and van Schil, Paul and Zuin, Andrea and Filosso, Pierluigi and Cerfolio, Robert J and Forcione, Anna Rita and Carleo, Francesco
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, ISSN 1010-7940, 9/2012, Volume 42, Issue 3, pp. 405 - 409
OBJECTIVES We evaluated factors that influenced morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing completion pneumonectomy (CP). METHODS A retrospective review of... 
Completion pneumonectomy | Lung cancer | Mortality | Morbidity | SURVIVAL | SURGERY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | AFFECTING OPERATIVE MORTALITY | RESECTION | PRIMARY LUNG-CANCER | 2ND | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | CARDIOPULMONARY MORBIDITY | Adenocarcinoma - pathology | Prognosis | Neoplasm, Residual - surgery | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - pathology | Humans | Middle Aged | Lung Diseases - mortality | Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - surgery | Lung Neoplasms - pathology | Male | Thoracotomy - adverse effects | Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - mortality | Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - surgery | Cause of Death | Hospital Mortality - trends | Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - pathology | Young Adult | Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - mortality | Reoperation - methods | Statistics, Nonparametric | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Retrospective Studies | Neoplasm, Residual - mortality | Reoperation - mortality | Sternotomy - adverse effects | Length of Stay | Postoperative Hemorrhage - mortality | Pneumonectomy - adverse effects | Risk Assessment | Postoperative Hemorrhage - surgery | Kaplan-Meier Estimate | Treatment Outcome | Lung Diseases - surgery | Pneumonectomy - methods | Thoracotomy - methods | Adolescent | Survival Analysis | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Aged | Lung Diseases - pathology | Adenocarcinoma - mortality | Adenocarcinoma - surgery | Cohort Studies | Sternotomy - methods
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11. Full Text Impact of Hospital Volume on Operative Mortality for Major Cancer Surgery
by Begg, Colin B and Cramer, Laura D and Hoskins, William J and Brennan, Murray F
JAMA, ISSN 0098-7484, 11/1998, Volume 280, Issue 20, pp. 1747 - 1751
CONTEXT.— Hospitals that treat a relatively high volume of patients for selected surgical oncology procedures report lower surgical in-hospital mortality rates... 
BREAST-CANCER | SURVIVAL | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | QUALITY | MORBIDITY | PANCREATIC RESECTION | PATTERNS | CLINICAL COMORBIDITY INDEX | CARE | ICD-9-CM ADMINISTRATIVE DATA | Length of Stay | SEER Program | Esophagectomy - mortality | Hospital Mortality | Medicare | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Neoplasms - surgery | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | United States | Humans | Quality Indicators, Health Care | Neoplasms - mortality | Diagnosis-Related Groups | Logistic Models | Surgical Procedures, Operative - statistics & numerical data | Hepatectomy - mortality | Specialties, Surgical - standards | Pancreatectomy - mortality | Surgery Department, Hospital - statistics & numerical data | Pelvic Exenteration - mortality | Survival Analysis | Aged | Retrospective Studies | Surgery Department, Hospital - standards | Evaluation | Hospitals | Complications | Surgery | Mortality | Risk factors | Cancer
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12. Full Text The 30- Versus 90-Day Operative Mortality After Pulmonary Resection
by Bryant, Ayesha S., MSPH, MD and Rudemiller, Kyle, BS and Cerfolio, Robert J., MD
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, ISSN 0003-4975, 2010, Volume 89, Issue 6, pp. 1717 - 1723
Background The 30-day operative mortality rate after thoracotomy is well documented; however, the 90-day mortality rate is not and is not part of The Society... 
Surgery | Cardiothoracic Surgery | SURGERY | LUNG-CANCER | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | MORBIDITY | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - surgery | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - mortality | Time Factors | Female | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Aged | Retrospective Studies | Cohort Studies
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13. Full Text Readmission after lung cancer resection is associated with a 6-fold increase in 90-day postoperative mortality
by Hu, Yinin, MD and McMurry, Timothy L., PhD and Isbell, James M., MD, MSCI and Stukenborg, George J., PhD and Kozower, Benjamin D., MD, MPH
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The, ISSN 0022-5223, 2014, Volume 148, Issue 5, pp. 2261 - 2267.e1
Objectives Postoperative readmission affects patient care and healthcare costs. There is a paucity of nationwide data describing the clinical significance of... 
Cardiothoracic Surgery | SURGERY | POPULATION | EARLY HOSPITAL READMISSION | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | CARDIAC OPERATIONS | RISK-FACTORS | MORBIDITY | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES | PREVALENCE | LENGTH-OF-STAY | COMORBIDITY INDEX | Postoperative Complications - economics | Pneumonectomy - economics | United States - epidemiology | Patient Readmission | Pneumonectomy - mortality | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Humans | Lung Neoplasms - pathology | Male | Postoperative Complications - mortality | Socioeconomic Factors | Time Factors | Aged, 80 and over | Female | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - pathology | Pneumonectomy - adverse effects | SEER Program | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - surgery | Medicare | Comorbidity | Risk Factors | Postoperative Complications - therapy | Treatment Outcome | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - mortality | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - economics | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Aged | Lung Neoplasms - economics | Health aspects | Lung cancer | Surgery | Mortality
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14. Full Text Predictors of Mortality After Surgical Management of Lung Cancer in the National Cancer Database
by Rosen, Joshua E., BASc and Hancock, Jacquelyn G., BS and Kim, Anthony W., MD and Detterbeck, Frank C., MD and Boffa, Daniel J., MD
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, ISSN 0003-4975, 2014, Volume 98, Issue 6, pp. 1953 - 1960
Background Surgical resection represents the standard of care for locoregionally confined non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); however, surgical complications... 
Surgery | Cardiothoracic Surgery | SURGERY | ED AMERICAN-COLLEGE | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | PNEUMONECTOMY | RESECTION | RISK | LENGTH-OF-STAY | THORACIC-SURGERY DATABASE | SOCIETY | CLINICAL-PRACTICE GUIDELINES | HOSPITAL VOLUME | RESPIRATORY SYSTEM | MAJOR MORBIDITY | United States - epidemiology | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - surgery | Prognosis | Survival Rate - trends | Follow-Up Studies | Lung Neoplasms - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Pneumonectomy | Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - mortality | Time Factors | Length of Stay - trends | Female | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Registries | Aged | Retrospective Studies | Databases | Lung cancer, Non-small cell | Patient outcomes | Mortality
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