Mortality following liver resection in US medicare patients: Does the presence of a liver transplant program affect outcome?

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 194-200

  Dixon, Elijah ^a,b   Schneeweiss, Sebastian ^c   Pasieka, Janice L ^b   Bathe, Oliver F ^b   Sutherland, Francis ^b   Doig, Christopher ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver resection; Liver transplantation; Medicare; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICARE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847222482     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.20645     Document Type: Article

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