Same quality - higher price? The paradox of allocation: The first national single center analysis after the implementation of the new Swiss transplantation law: The ICU view

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 921-928

  Oberkofler, Christian E ^a   Stocker, Reto ^a   Raptis, Dimitri A ^a   Stover, John F ^a   Schuepbach, Reto A ^a   Müllhaupt, Beat ^a   Dutkowski, Philipp ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a   Béchir, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; ICU mortality; Liver transplantation; MELD score; Renal failure; Renal replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAW; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ADULT; AGED; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 83455187026     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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