Liver transplantation in the critically ill: A multicenter Canadian retrospective cohort study

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Karvellas, Constantine J ^a   Lescot, Thomas ^b   Goldberg, Peter ^b   Sharpe, Michael D ^c   Ronco, Juan J ^d   Renner, Eberhard L ^e   Vahidy, Hina ^a   Poonja, Zafrina ^a   Chaudhury, Prosanto ^b   Kneteman, Norman M ^f   Selzner, Markus ^e   Cook, Earl F ^g   Bagshaw, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 84873474902     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12508     Document Type: Article

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