Quality control of the European Liver Transplant Registry: Results of audit visits to the contributing centers

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2167-2173

  Karam, Vincent ^a   Gunson, Bridget ^b   Roggen, Francine ^c   Grande, Luis ^d   Wannoff, Wolfgang ^e   Janssen, Magda ^c   Guckelberger, Olaf ^f   Delvart, Valérie ^a   Bismuth, Henri ^a   Höckerstedt, Krister ^g   Rogiers, Xavier ^e   Adam, René ^a  

^a HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^g UCJ Helsingfors   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EUROPE; GRAFT FAILURE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038789078     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000080271.20145.07     Document Type: Review

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