Increased reporting but decreased mortality associated with adverse events in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery: Competing forces in an era of heightened focus on care quality?

Mitchell S. von Itzstein; Arjun Gupta; Kemp H. Kernstine; Kristin C. Mara; Sahil Khanna; David E. Gerber

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231258

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Increased reporting but decreased mortality associated with adverse events in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery: Competing forces in an era of heightened focus on care quality?

Mitchell S. von Itzstein ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell S. von Itzstein, Arjun Gupta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0530-3169

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Arjun Gupta ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mitchell S. von Itzstein, Arjun Gupta

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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Kemp H. Kernstine,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America
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Kristin C. Mara,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America
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Sahil Khanna,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America
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David E. Gerber

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: david.gerber@utsouthwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Department of Population & Data Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX, United States of America
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Increased reporting but decreased mortality associated with adverse events in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery: Competing forces in an era of heightened focus on care quality?

Mitchell S. von Itzstein,
Arjun Gupta,
Kemp H. Kernstine,
Kristin C. Mara,
Sahil Khanna,
David E. Gerber

Published: April 9, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231258

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