What is it about?
The aim of the study was to evaluate the predictive capacity of a series of pre‐defined inflammatory cell indexes based on preoperative complete blood counts, towards length of hospital stay in open elective thoracic surgery.
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Why is it important?
This was the first study to evaluate the role of preoperative blood count indexes as predictors of hospital stay in thoracic surgery.
Perspectives
Our results suggest that simple, inexpensive and widely available inflammatory cell indexes obtained with simple blood cell counts can be useful for the early identification of patients at risk of prolonged hospital stay in open elective thoracic surgery.
Dr Panagiotis Paliogiannis
University of Sassari
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This page is a summary of: Inflammatory cell indexes as preoperative predictors of hospital stay in open elective thoracic surgery, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, April 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ans.14557.
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