Impact That Day of the Week has on Length of Stay for Video-assisted Lobectomy.
Publication Date
2021
Journal Title
Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
Abstract
We aimed to analyze the effect that the day of the week for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy has on length of stay . A retrospective review identified all patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy at a single institution from January 2016 to July 2017. In total, 208 patients were divided into 2 groups based on timing of their operation: Operations performed on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday were defined as "early in the week" and those performed on Thursday or Friday were defined as "late in the week." We then propensity-matched 81 pairs of patients and analyzed perioperative data and short-term clinical outcomes. A total of 208 patients underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy during the study period. Length of stay was significantly decreased by 2.0 days (P
Volume Number
33
Issue Number
3
Pages
897-901
Document Type
Article
Status
Faculty, Northwell Resident
Facility
School of Medicine; Northwell Health
Primary Department
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Additional Departments
Otolaryngology
PMID
DOI
10.1053/j.semtcvs.2020.11.023