Factors Associated With Length of Hospital Stay Following Liver Transplant Surgery.

Objectives: Length of stay is considered an important surrogate for transplant survival rate and resource utilization. Therefore, in the present study, our aim was to determine factors affecting length of hospital stay.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed records of patients who underwent liver transplant at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences Liver Transplantation Center from March 2014 to March 2016.

Erratum to epidemiology, incidence and mortality of lung cancer and their relationship with the development index in the world.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2016.

Epidemiology, incidence and mortality of lung cancer and their relationship with the development index in the world.

Background: The highest incidence of lung cancer is seen in North America and the lowest incidence in central Africa. Socioeconomic factors of inequality reflect regional disparities in human development. Due to the importance of awareness about incidence and mortality of lung cancer in health programming and the possible role of the human development index (HDI), this study was done with the aim to investigate the epidemiology of lung cancer in the world and its relationship with HDI.