Comprehensive cost comparison of adult-adult right hepatic lobe living-donor liver transplantation with cadaveric transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 473-476

  Trotter, James F ^a   Mackenzie, Scott ^a   Wachs, Michael ^a   Bak, Thomas ^a   Steinberg, Tracy ^a   Polsky, Patty ^a   Kam, Igal ^a   Everson, Gregory T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; CADAVER; COLORADO; COST CONTROL; COST SAVINGS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 0037468493     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000047310.04069.ED     Document Type: Article

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