Predicting Early Mortality After Acute Variceal Hemorrhage Based on Classification and Regression Tree Analysis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1347-1354

  Augustin, Salvador ^a   Muntaner, Laura ^a   Altamirano, José T ^a   González, Antonio ^a   Saperas, Esteban ^b   Dot, Joan ^b   Abu Suboh, Monder ^b   Armengol, Josep R ^b   Malagelada, Joan R ^b   Esteban, Rafael ^a   Guardia, Jaime ^a   Genescà, Joan ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; NADOLOL; NORFLOXACIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGATION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CREATININE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70350193318     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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