The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: Establishing Generalizability to National Lung Cancer Resection Outcomes

The GTDB represents a small percentage of the lung cancer resections performed nationally and reports significantly lower mortality rates and shorter hospital length of stay than national results. The GTDB is not broadly generalizable. These results establish a benchmark for future GTDB comparisons and highlight the importance of increasing participation in the database.