Access to Kidney Transplantation: Has the United States Eliminated Income and Racial Differences?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 1988, Pages 2594-2600

  Held, Philip J ^a   Pauly, Mark V ^b   Bovbjerg, Randall R ^a   Newmann, John ^a   Salvatierra, Oscar ^c  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DISTRIBUTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALES; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES; MALES; SELECTION FOR TREATMENT; SURVEY; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLACKS; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREJUDICE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; WHITES;

EID: 0024209569     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1988.00380120056011     Document Type: Article

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