Racial disparities in survival after lung transplantation

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 286-293

  Liu, Vincent ^a   Weill, David ^a   Bhattacharya, Jay ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; DEATH; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 79952857446     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.4     Document Type: Article

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