Liver transplantation trends for older recipients: Regional and ethnic variations

Transplantation

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-107

  Kemmer, Nyingi ^a,b   Safdar, Kamran ^a   Kaiser, Tiffany E ^a   Zacharias, Victoria ^a   Neff, Guy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Ethnicity; Liver Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECIPIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49849086132     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318176b4c1     Document Type: Article

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