Gastroenterology
Volume 135, Issue 5 , Pages 1575-1581, November 2008

Re-weighting the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Score Components

These findings were presented as an oral presentation at American Transplant Congress, 2007, held in San Francisco, California.

  • Pratima Sharma

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Douglas E. Schaubel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Camelia S. Sima

      Affiliations

    • Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Robert M. Merion

      Affiliations

    • Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Anna S.F. Lok

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Anna S. F. Lok, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Health System, 3912 Taubman Center, SPC 5362, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. fax: (734) 936-7392

Received 22 October 2007; accepted 7 August 2008. published online 15 August 2008.

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 Supported by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients funded by contract number 231-00-0116 from the Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services. The statistical methodology development and analysis for this investigation was supported by the National Institutes of Health grant R01 DK-70869 (to D.E.S.). The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the US government.

 The authors disclose no conflicts.

PII: S0016-5085(08)01509-6

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2008.08.004

Gastroenterology
Volume 135, Issue 5 , Pages 1575-1581, November 2008

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