Interobserver agreement in hepatitis C grading and staging and in the Banff grading schema for acute cellular rejection: The "Hepatitis C 3" multi-institutional trial experience

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1157-1162

  Netto, George J ^a,n,o   Watkins, David L ^a   Williams, James W ^b   Colby, Thomas V ^b   DePetris, Giovanni ^b   Sharkey, Francis E ^c   Corless, Christopher L ^d   Lewin, David ^e   Petrovic, Lydia ^f   Sharma, Shobha ^g   Kanel, Gary ^h   Theise, Neil ⁱ   West, A Brian ⁱ   Koehler, Alison ^j   Jhala, Nirag C ^k   Lefkowitch, Jay ^l   Lezzoni, Julia ^m   Jennings, Linda W ^a   Tillery, G Weldon ^a   Klintmalm, Goran B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^l NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

ⁿ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTS AND LUDWIG GRADING; BANFF GRADING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPEN STUDY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33746773642     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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