Decision making in liver transplantation - Limited application of the liver donor risk index

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 831-837

  Mataya, Leslie ^a   Aronsohn, Andrew ^b,c   Thistlethwaite, J Richard ^b,c   Ross, Lainie Friedman ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATOLOGIST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIVER; LIVER DONOR; LIVER DONOR RISK INDEX; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK FACTOR; TRANSPLANT COORDINATOR; TRANSPLANT SURGEON; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; DECISION MAKING; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVING DONOR; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903126479     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23879     Document Type: Article

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