Racial and ethnic disparities in access to liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1033-1040

  Mathur, Amit K ^a   Schaubel, Douglas E ^b,c   Gong, Qi ^b   Guidinger, Mary K ^c,d   Merion, Robert M ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients   (United States)

^d ARBOR RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77956915564     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22108     Document Type: Article

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