Clinical factors predicting readmission after orthotopic liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1037-1045

  Pereira, Arema A ^a   Bhattacharya, Renuka ^a   Carithers, Robert ^a   Reyes, Jorge ^a   Perkins, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AFTERCARE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84865590531     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23475     Document Type: Article

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