Deaths on the liver transplant waiting l
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W. Ray Kim; Terry M. Therneau; Joanne T. Benson; Walter K. Kremers; Charles B. R
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The usual method of estimating survival probabilities, namely the Kaplan-Meier method, is suboptimal in the analysis of deaths on the transplant waiting list. Death, transplantation, and withdrawal from list must all be considered. In this analysis, we applied the competing risk analysis method, whi