Effect of hospital volume and teaching status on outcomes of acute liver failure

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1347-1356

  Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N ^a   McGinley, Emily L ^a   Saeian, Kia ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51349141445     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21519     Document Type: Article

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