New national liver transplant allocation policy: Is the regional review board process fair?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 666-674

  Voigt, Michael D ^a,b   Zimmerman, Bridget ^a   Katz, Daniel A ^a   Rayhill, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 2442477686     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20116     Document Type: Review

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