Thoracic surgeons' insights: Improving thoracic surgery outcomes during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic

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¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, China.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, National Key Discipline of Surgery (Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery), Chengdu, China.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Oncology and Surgery, China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease and National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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Ke-Neng Chen et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2020.

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doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezaa214.

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing, China.
² Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
³ Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, National Key Discipline of Surgery (Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery), Chengdu, China.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Oncology and Surgery, China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease and National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

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Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Outcome improvement; Thoracic surgery.

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