1. 2016 Annual report from the Italian VATS Group
- Author
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Piergiorgio Solli, Luca Bertolaccini, Andrea Droghetti, Alessandro Bertani, Alessandro Gonfiotti, Mario Nosotti, Marcello Migliore, Roberto Crisci, and Italian VATS Group
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medicine.medical_specialty ,lobectomy ,Cancer Research ,Lung Neoplasms ,Consensus Development Conferences as Topic ,VATS lobectomy ,Video-Assisted ,VATS ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,lung cancer ,lung resection ,multicenter study ,study group ,thoracoscopic lobectomy ,Oncology ,Online Systems ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,Registries ,Pneumonectomy ,Lung ,business.industry ,Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted ,Databases as Topic ,Italy ,Treatment Outcome ,General surgery ,Thoracic Surgery ,General Medicine ,Annual report ,Multicenter study ,Cardiothoracic surgery ,Publishing ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Lung resection ,business - Abstract
This report highlights the results of the Italian video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) Group, launched in mid 2013, which now has a website and an established database with over 4000 VATS lobectomy cases recruited from 67 thoracic surgery units across Italy. The year 2016 has been crucial for the following steps: inclusion of a dedicated biostatistician and a ‘Survey Analysis & Data Quality Check’; the First Consensus Meeting with statements consequently adopted as Recommendations for the Italian Thoracic Surgery Society and published in a peer-reviewed journal; two papers published under the logo Italian VATS Group and seven abstracts accepted at annual international meetings (European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, European Lung Cancer Conference and European Respiratory Society); the institution of a Master Course on VATS lobectomy; the partnership with AME Publishing Company.
- Published
- 2018