Relationship between provider volume and outcomes for orthotopic liver transplantation

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1527-1533

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Outcomes assessment; Provider volume; Resource utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DONOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49749125573     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-008-0589-5     Document Type: Article

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