Model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score and cost-effectiveness on living donor liver transplantation

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1023-1024

  Ichida, Takafumi ^a   Narita, Yutaka ^a   Murakami, Romi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33750979259     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-006-1959-y     Document Type: Editorial

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