Correlation between physiological assessment and outcome after liver transplantation

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 396-399

  Chung, Stephen W ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^a   Kim, H L Nancy ^a   Scudamore, Charles H ^a   Yoshida, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034656856     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00362-7     Document Type: Article

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