Relationship between pediatric blood and marrow transplant center volume and day +100 mortality: Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium experience

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 514-522

  Taylor, D S ^a   Dharmar, M ^a   Urquhart Scott, E ^a   Ryan, R ^b   Pulsipher, M A ^c   Gamis, A ^b   Schultz, K ^d   Marcin, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

mortality; outcome; PBMTC; pediatric; transplantation; volume

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ACCREDITATION; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HLA MATCHING; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONMYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETREATMENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNRELATED DONORS;

ACCREDITATION; ADOLESCENT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876406628     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2012.192     Document Type: Review

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