title: The crisis of readmissions: symptom or disease?
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo. Electronic address: puriv@wudosis.wustl.edu.
authors.forename: Varun
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Puri
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000191:economics* / Q000401:mortality*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*