Donor action program in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-279

  Pugliese, Maria Rosa ^a   Degli Esposti, Daniela ^a   Dormi, Ada ^b   Venturoli, Nicola ^a   Gaito, Paolo Mazzetti ^a   Sestigiani, Elena ^a   Monti, Marzia ^d   Ghirardini, Angelo ^c   Costa, Alessandro Nanni ^c   Ridolfi, Lorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c National Center for Transplantation   (Italy)

^d NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0036943007     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.12.4.cgw67246mm76q773     Document Type: Article

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