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✍ Benjamin L. Shneider; Frederick J. Suchy; Sukru Emre 📂 Article 📅 2005 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 177 KB

Since February 2002, the Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease (PELD) scoring system has been utilized as a means of prioritizing children for liver transplantation. The United Network for Organ Sharing database was queried to assess utilization of PELD in 2003 and 2004; 682 liver transplants were perfo