The cost of graft failure and other severe complications after liver transplantation - experience from a German transplant center

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 11-18

  Lock, Johan Friso ^a   Reinhold, Thomas ^a   Bloch, Andy ^a   Malinowski, Maciej ^a   Schmidt, Sven Christian ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a   Stockmann, Martin ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79953176038     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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