Early clinical and economic outcomes of patients undergoing living donor nephrectomy in the United States

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 356-362

  Friedman, Amy L ^a   Cheung, Kevin ^b,c   Roman, Sanziana A ^c   Sosa, Julie Ann ^c  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVING DONOR; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENESCENCE; SEX RATIO; SURGEON; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHRECTOMY; ODDS RATIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951433837     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.17     Document Type: Article

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