Open AccessHospitalization Patterns Before and After Liver Transplantation
Author(s) -
Douglas E. Schaubel,
Guanghui Wei,
Dawn M. Dykstra,
Friedrich K. Port,
Robert M. Merion
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/01.tp.0000295733.69375.2f
Subject(s) - medicine , liver transplantation , liver disease , gee , cohort , transplantation , chronic liver disease , generalized estimating equation , confidence interval , cohort study , model for end stage liver disease , surgery , cirrhosis , statistics , mathematics
Mortality among patients with chronic liver failure is significantly reduced upon liver transplantation. However, decreases in mortality may not be accompanied by decreases in morbidity metrics, such as hospitalization rates. We compared pre- and posttransplant hospitalization rates for liver transplant recipients.