Pretreatment patient comorbidity and tobacco use increase cost and risk of postoperative complications after esophagectomy at a high-volume cancer center

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Esophagectomy 95%
• Tobacco Use 86%
• Postoperative Complications 70%
• Comorbidity 64%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 50%
• Neoplasms 26%
• Anastomotic Leak 19%
• Length of Stay 18%
• Lung 13%
• Adenocarcinoma 12%
• Linear Models 12%
• Odds Ratio 10%
• Neoadjuvant Therapy 9%
• Inpatients 6%
• Logistic Models 5%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• comorbidity 100%
• nicotine 77%
• costs 46%
• major event 32%
• driver 13%
• regression 10%
• integrated system 10%
• logistics 6%
• history 4%
• performance 3%