Access to liver transplantation in the MELD era: Role of ethnicity and insurance

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1794-1797

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Insurance; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MINORITY GROUP; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; LIVER DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649933074     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-008-0567-5     Document Type: Article

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