Cost and outcome analysis and cost determinants of liver transplantation in a European National Health Service Hospital

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1731-1736

  Filipponi, Franco ^a,d   Pisati, Roberto ^b   Cavicchini, Gianna ^c   Ulivieri, Maria I ^c   Ferrara, Roberto ^b   Mosca, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Medical Department   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^d CISANELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038392955     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000063828.20960.35     Document Type: Article

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