The Donor-Risk-Index, ECD-Score and D-MELD-Score all fail to predict short-term outcome after liver transplantation with acceptable sensitivity and specificity

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 5-13

  Schrem, Harald ^a   Reichert, Benedikt ^b   Frühauf, Nils ^c   Becker, Thomas ^b   Lehner, Frank ^a   Kleine, Moritz ^a   Bektas, Hüseyin ^a   Zachau, Lea ^a   Klempnauer, Jürgen ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c German Foundation for Organ Transplantation (DSO)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Prognostic models; Receiver operating characteristic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DONOR RISK INDEX; EXTENDED CRITERIA DONOR SCORE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY MODEL OF END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; YOUDEN INDEX;

EID: 84868684784     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/aot.883452     Document Type: Article

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