Health-related quality of life and employment status of liver transplant patients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-72

  Åberg, Fredrik ^a,d   Rissanen, Anne M ^b,e   Sintonen, Harri ^c   Roine, Risto P ^b   Höckerstedt, Krister ^a   Isoniemi, Helena ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Group Administration   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d Surgical Hospital   (Finland)

^e Uusimaa Hospital Group   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETIREMENT; RETRANSPLANTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNEMPLOYMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64249101658     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21651     Document Type: Article

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