Decreasing mortality among patients hospitalized with cirrhosis in the United States from 2002 through 2010

Gastroenterology

Volumn 148, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 967-977.e2

  Schmidt, Monica L ^a   Barritt, A Sidney ^b   Orman, Eric S ^c   Hayashi, Paul H ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompensation; Liver Failure; Predictors; Renal Failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLEEDING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HOSPICE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARACENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART FAILURE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928645672     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2015.01.032     Document Type: Article

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