Predicting Non-home Discharge After Lung Surgery: Analysis of the General Thoracic Surgery Database

Anticipating the need for non-home discharge (NHD) enables improved patient counseling and expedites placement, potentially reducing length of stay and hospital readmission. The objective of this study was to create a simple, preoperative, clinical prediction tool for NHD using The Society of Thorac...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Annals of thoracic surgery 2023-03, Vol.115 (3), p.687-692
Hauptverfasser: Karush, Justin M., Alex, Gillian, Geissen, Nicole, Wakefield, Connor, Basu, Sanjib, Liptay, Michael J., Seder, Christopher W.
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Zusammenfassung:Anticipating the need for non-home discharge (NHD) enables improved patient counseling and expedites placement, potentially reducing length of stay and hospital readmission. The objective of this study was to create a simple, preoperative, clinical prediction tool for NHD using The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database (STS GTSD). The STS GTSD was queried for patients who underwent elective anatomic lung cancer resection between 2009 and 2019. Exclusion criteria included age
ISSN:0003-4975
1552-6259
DOI:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.07.020