Hospital stay after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

I Dear Editor i We would like to thank Shen I et al. i for their interest in our study[1] and their comments on our results. Reasons for staying in hospital after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy. Although reduction of length of hospital stay is one of the goals of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), focus should be on faster achievement of accepted discharge criteria rather than the length itself. [Extracted from the article]