Randomised control trials.

Cohort studies.

Cross-sectional studies.

Case reports.

Full-text articles.

Full-text conference proceedings.

Abstracts for posters.

Grey literature including hospital annual reports and government documents reporting on costs of complications post lung resection surgery.

Articles of which the full text cannot be accessed.

Abstracts written in a language

other than English.

Protocols for planned studies.

Editorial articles.

Pneumonectomy including extrapleural pneumonectomy.

Anatomical and non-anatomical lung resections with palliative intensive surgery.

Anatomical and non-anatomical lung resections for small and non-small cell lung cancers and other rare malignant tumours.

Lung resection surgery for metastatic lung cancer.

Lung resection surgery for benign and inflammatory disease.

Pleurodesis.

Pulmonary decortication.

Procedures on the pleura.

Tracheal and bronchial (parenchyma sparing resections.

Oesophagectomy.

Mediastinal tumour resections/mediastinoscopy.

Endobronchial procedures on the bronchus and trachea.

Surgery on the chest wall and/or ribs.

Studies that evaluate the cost burden of complications after lung resection surgery.

Studies that collect economic and psychosocial information surrounding the outcomes of patients undergoing lung resection surgery.

Exploring economic burden and costs of complications associated with post pneumonectomy, lobectomy, segmentectomy and wedge resection complications.