Complications, hospital length of stay, and readmission after total laryngectomy.
Ryan P GoepfertKatherine A HutchesonJan S LewinNeha G DesaiMark E ZafereoAmy C HesselCarol M LewisRandal S WeberNeil D GrossPublished in: Cancer (2016)
Complications occurred in approximately one-third of TL patients and particularly in patients with poor wound-healing risk factors such as prior smoking and radiation. As expected, LOS was longer among reconstructed patients. Readmission was associated with hypoalbuminemia and postoperative wound complications. These data can inform quality improvement efforts and the counseling of high-risk patients undergoing TL. Cancer 2017;123:1760-1767. © 2016 American Cancer Society.
Keyphrases
- risk factors
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- quality improvement
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- papillary thyroid
- wound healing
- emergency department
- squamous cell carcinoma
- machine learning
- young adults
- smoking cessation
- big data
- lymph node metastasis
- acute care
- men who have sex with men