Thirty-Day Mortality After Lobectomy in Elderly Patients Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening Carlos E. Bravo Iñiguez, MD, Katherine W. Armstrong, MPH, Zara Cooper, MD, MS, Joel S. Weissman, PhD, Christopher T. Ducko, MD, Jon O. Wee, MD, Mauricio Perez Martinez, MD, Raphael Bueno, MD, Michael T. Jaklitsch, MD, Daniel C. Wiener, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 541-546 (February 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.08.067 Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Study design. Patients identified using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database, Current Procedural Terminology Codes (CPT codes), and US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines for lung cancer screening. (VATS = video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2016 101, 541-546DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.08.067) Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions