Liver allocation: The intent-to-treat approach

Transplant International

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 270-274

  Freeman, Richard B ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANT REGISTRY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOTE; ORGAN DONOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REOPERATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 33645375095     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00294.x     Document Type: Note

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