An acute change in lung allocation score and survival after lung transplantation: A cohort study

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 650-657

  Tsuang, Wayne M ^a   Vock, David M ^b   Ashley Finlen Copeland, C ^a   Lederer, David J ^c   Palmer, Scott M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84877287928     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-9-201305070-00004     Document Type: Article

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