Model for End-Stage Liver disease and Child-Turcotte-Pugh score as predictors of pretransplantation disease severity, posttransplantation outcome, and resource utilization in united network for organ sharing status 2A patients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 278-284

  Brown Jr , Robert S ^a,b   Kumar, K Shiva ^a   Russo, Mark W ^a,b   Kinkhabwala, Milan ^a,c   Rudow, Dianne L ^a   Harren, Patricia ^a   Lobritto, Steven ^a,b   Emond, Jean C ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; DIALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036196937     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2002.31340     Document Type: Article

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