Background Respiratory failure after pulmonary lobectomy is a serious complication
associated with increased mortality in limited institutional series. The present study …

Objective: To characterize the relationship between institutional robotic-assisted pulmonary
lobectomy volume and hospitalization costs. Background: The high cost of robotic-assisted …

Abstract Objective Safety-net hospitals (SNHs) have previously been associated with inferior
outcomes and greater resource use. However, this relationship has not been explored in the …

Background Unplanned reoperation is a potential risk factor for worse prognoses and
reflects the quality of surgical treatment. This study compared the short-term outcomes …

Background Conversion to open is a potentially serious intraoperative event associated with
minimally invasive pulmonary lobectomy. However, the impact of institutional expertise on …

Background Optimization of value, or quality relative to costs, has garnered significant
attention in the United States. We aimed to characterize center-level variation in costs and …

Background Rescue failure has been described as an important factor that conditions
postoperative mortality after surgical interventions. The objective of this study is to determine …

Objective Failure to rescue (FTR), defined as in-hospital death following a major
complication, has been increasingly studied in patients who undergo cardiothoracic surgery …