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Too Aggressive or Not Aggressive Enough? Should a Metric Change Center Practice?
Author(s) -
Lai J. C.,
Feng S.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.12152
Subject(s) - medicine , liver transplantation , liver disease , metric (unit) , transplantation , donation , competition (biology) , demography , surgery , operations management , ecology , law , political science , biology , sociology , economics
Should centers measure themselves against a metric quantifying aggressive use of marginal livers, or any other ruler of aggressiveness, to examine and regulate their liver acceptance practice? See article by Garonzik‐Wang et al on page 936.