Liver transplanted patients with donors older than 60 years require more hospital resources

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 735-736

  Corts, L ^a   Campillo, A ^a   Fiteni, I ^b   Lorente, S ^a   Garcia Gil, A ^a   Tejero, E ^a   Serrano, T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79954531312     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2011.03.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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