Some areas for improvement emerge: admission processes need to be standardized to avoid urgent admissions and to improve pre-operative care hospital discharges should be streamlined and discharge reports improved by including all procedures and complications. ConclusionsĪs in previous editions, practices among participating groups varied considerably. Specific interventions (lobectomy, pneumonectomy, atypical resections, and treatment of pneumothorax) also varied widely. General parameters (number of cases, mean stay, complications, readmissions, mortality, and activity) varied widely among the participating groups.
The refined diagnosis-related groups classification was used to evaluate differences in severity and complexity of cases. Cases were labeled using codes from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification. Episodes included were respiratory surgery (Major Diagnostic Category 04, Surgery), and those of the thoracic surgery unit. Study cases all involved hospital discharges recorded in the participating sites.
Data from hospital discharge reports were submitted by the participating groups, but staff from the corresponding departments did not intervene in data collection. Study data were obtained from the basic minimum data set for hospitalization, registered in 2012. To analyze the results of benchmarking performed in 2013 on clinical practices undertaken in 2012 in 17 Spanish thoracic surgery units. See moreīenchmarking entails continuous comparison of efficacy and quality among products and activities, with the primary objective of achieving excellence. The Journal expresses the voice of the Spanish Respiratory Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) as well as that of other scientific societies such as the Latin American Thoracic Society (ALAT) and the Iberian American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AICT).Īuthors are also welcome to submit their articles to the Journal's open access companion title, Open Respiratory Archives. Furthermore, the Journal is also present in Twitter and Facebook. Manuscripts will be submitted electronically using the following web site:, link which is also accessible through the main web page of Archivos de Bronconeumologia.Īccess to any published article, in either language, is possible through the Journal's web page as well as from PubMed, Science Direct, and other international databases. Translators working for the Journal are in charge of the corresponding translations. Therefore, the submission of manuscripts written in either Spanish or English is welcome. The Journal is published monthly both in Spanish and English. It is a monthly Journal that publishes a total of 12 issues and a few supplements, which contain articles belonging to the different sections.Īll the manuscripts received in the Journal are evaluated by the Editors and sent to expert peer-review while handled by the Editor and/or an Associate Editor from the team.
Other types of articles such as reviews, editorials, a few special articles of interest to the society and the editorial board, scientific letters, letters to the Editor, and clinical images are also published in the Journal. Archivos de Bronconeumologia is a scientific journal that preferentially publishes prospective original research articles whose content is based upon results dealing with several aspects of respiratory diseases such as epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinics, surgery, and basic investigation.