An Examination of Liver Offers to Candidates on the Liver Transplant Wait-List
โ Scribed by Jennifer Cindy Lai; Sandy Feng; John Paul Roberts
- Book ID
- 119762337
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Volume
- 143
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-5085
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Guidelines are in place regarding who is a candidate for liver transplantation. Once a potential candidate is listed, there are no uniform guidelines indicating when he should be removed from the list because of a change in clinical status. A survey with 14 scenarios was sent to the medical and surg