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Review
. 2021 Jun 4;17(5):359-364.
doi: 10.1002/cld.1059. eCollection 2021 May.

Beyond Survival: Targeting Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes After Liver Transplantation

David J Cristin  1 , Lisa M Forman  1 , Whitney E Jackson  1
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Review

Beyond Survival: Targeting Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes After Liver Transplantation

David J Cristin et al. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). .
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A comparison of HRQOL outcomes: pretransplant versus posttransplant versus general population. Russell et al. 25 compared 104 pre‐LT and post‐LT adults who reported HRQOL using SF‐36 with that of the general population.
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