MELD Scores of Liver Transplant Recipients According to Size of Waiting List: Impact of Organ Allocation and Patient Outcomes

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1871-1874

  Trotter, James F ^a   Osgood, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1942510652     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.15.1871     Document Type: Article

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