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Costs Associated With Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: An Analysis Merging STS and Medicare Data

Friday, May 28, 2021

Submitted by

Christopher Anderson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.08.073

Author(s)

Rachel L. Medbery, MD, Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSc, Andrzej S. Kosinski, PhD, Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS, Anthony P. Furnary, MD, Liqi Feng, MS, Mark Onaitis, MD, Daniel Boffa, MD, Cameron D. Wright, MD, Patricia Cowper, PhD, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD, Joe B. Putnam, Jr, MD, and Robert H. Habib, PhD

The goal of this study was to determine underlying case mix factors that can contribute to a plethora of 90-day costs of lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer.