Predicting in-hospital mortality in patients with cirrhosis: Results differ across risk adjustment methods

Hepatology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 568-577

  Myers, Robert P ^a   Quan, Hude ^b   Hubbard, James N ^a   Shaheen, Abdel Aziz M ^a   Kaplan, Gilaad G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ALL PATIENT REFINED DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUPS; ARTICLE; CHARLSON DEYO AND ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY ALGORITHM; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE STAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ALGORITHM; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CANADA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61949204539     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22676     Document Type: Article

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