The Impact of Center Volume on Survival in Lung Transplantation: An Analysis of More Than 10,000 Cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1062-1070

  Weiss, Eric S ^a   Allen, Jeremiah G ^a   Meguid, Robert A ^a   Patel, Nishant D ^a   Merlo, Christian A ^b   Orens, Jonathan B ^b   Baumgartner, William A ^a   Conte, John V ^a   Shah, Ashish S ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70249095003     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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