The heart-allocation simulation model: A tool for comparison of transplantation allocation policies

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1492-1497

  Van Den Hout, Wilbert B ^a   Smits, Jacqueline M A ^b   Deng, Mario C ^c   Hummel, Manfred ^d   Schoendube, Friedrich ^e   Scheld, Hans H ^f   Persijn, Guido G ^b   Laufer, Gunther ^g  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Berlin Heart AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g Universitatsklinik fur Chirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART DISEASE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0345446521     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000092005.95047.E9     Document Type: Article

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