Reporting Functional Status in UNOS: The Weakness of the Karnofsky Performance Status Scale

Overview

Journal Clin Transplant

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2017 Jun 6

PMID 28580753

Citations 12

Authors

Connie W Wang

Jennifer C Lai

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