Lung allocation score for lung transplantation: Impact on disease severity and survival

Chest

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1954-1961

  Gries, Cynthia J ^a   Mulligan, Michael S ^b   Edelman, Jeffrey D ^a   Raghu, Ganesh ^a   Curtis, J Randall ^c   Goss, Christopher H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung allocation score; Lung transplantation; Organ allocation; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 37549043926     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-1160     Document Type: Article

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