Predictive models of short- and long-term survival in patients with nonbiliary cirrhosis

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 260-267

  Longheval, Gérald ^a   Vereerstraeten, Pierre ^a   Thiry, Philippe ^a   Delhaye, Myriam ^a   Le Moine, Olivier ^a   Devière, Jacques ^a   Bourgeois, Nadine ^a   Adler, Michael ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037342853     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50049     Document Type: Article

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