Time-varying analysis of readmission and mortality during the first year after pneumonectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Mortality rates of 5% to 10% after pneumonectomy have remained constant during the last decade. To understand the patterns of outcomes after pneumonectomy, we investigated the time-varying risks of readmission and death during the first postoperative year and examined the contributions of specific causes to these patterns over time.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed all pneumonectomies for lung cancer at our institution from 2000 to 2018. The time-varying instantaneous risk of all-cause readmission and mortality up to 1 year after pneumonectomy was estimated using parametric analyses and was repeated for each primary cause of readmission (oncologic, infectious, pulmonary, cardiac, or other) and death (oncologic or nononcologic).

Results

In our cohort of 3

SUBMITTER: Jones GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7348691 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature