Costs Associated With Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: An Analysis Merging STS and Medicare Data
Medbery RL, Fernandez FG, Kosinski AS, Tong BC, Furnary AP, Feng L, Onaitis M, Boffa D, Wright CD, Cowper P, Jacobs JP, Putnam JB, Habib RH. Costs Associated With Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: An Analysis Merging STS and Medicare Data. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2020, 111: 1781-1790. PMID: 33188754, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.08.073.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLung cancerHospital characteristicsMedicare dataClinical stage I lung cancerCare costsRecurrent laryngeal nerve paresisStage I lung cancerEarly-stage lung cancerThoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery DatabaseI lung cancerPreoperative patient factorsChronic kidney diseaseGeneral Thoracic Surgery DatabaseLaryngeal nerve paresisSeverity of complicationsBody mass indexCase-mix factorsCare of patientsNumber of complicationsThoracic Surgery DatabaseNerve paresisPerioperative outcomesPostoperative complicationsRespiratory failureExpiratory volume