Population
3426 adult patients that had a first lung resection from 27 units in 14 countries
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
in-hospital
Authors
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Preoperative factors may aid mortality risk stratification after lung resection; leaves open prospective validation before changing practice.
Pre-operative factors including dyspnoea, ASA score, procedure class, and age can be used to model the risk of in-hospital death following lung resection.
Berrisford et al. (2005) studied this question.
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