Temporal trends in early clinical outcomes and health care resource utilization for liver transplantation in the United States

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-88

  Scarborough, John E ^a   Pietrobon, Ricardo ^a   Marroquin, Carlos E ^a   Tuttle Newhall, Janet E ^a   Kuo, Paul C ^a   Collins, Bradley H ^a   Desai, Dev M ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care resource utilization; Liver transplantation; Longitudinal analysis; Outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250211115     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-007-0103-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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