National Register Studies in Thoracic Surgery

Karolinska University Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Pulmonary Metastasis; Surgery; Lung Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Thoracic surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03567538

NatRegThx

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall project aim is to study risk and outcomes following thoracic surgery by cross-linking high-quality national Swedish health-data registers for population-based investigations of individual level clinically relevant patient data.

Full description

The purpose of this research project is to study risks and outcomes in patients who underwent thoracic surgery, primarily for lung cancer. We aim to establish a fundament for the conduct of nationwide population-based studies by linking patient-level data from the Swedish quality register for thoracic surgery (ThoR) and other national health-data registers maintained by the government agencies Statistics Sweden and the National Board of Health and Welfare. Cross-linking patient-level data is possible through the Personal Identity Number assigned to every individual who has resided in Sweden on a permanent basis. The Swedish Personal Identity Number is the unique identifier in all national registers.

Specifically, we aim:

1. To analyze the association between socioeconomic factors and prognosis in patients undergoing pulmonary resection for lung cancer.
2. To investigate the implementation of minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer in Sweden.

Enrollment: 20,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 110 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All adult patients who underwent thoracic surgery in Sweden during the study period

Exclusion criteria