A multivariate approach for assessing severity of acute graft-versus-host disease in bone marrow transplantation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-440

  Parrish, Rudolph S ^a,b   Hazlett, Linda J ^a,b   Bridges, Kerry D ^b   Henslee Downey, P Jean ^b  

^a South Carolina Cancer Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; LIVER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RASH; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMETRY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN DISEASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033611756     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990228)18:4<423::AID-SIM27>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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