Improving donor identification with the Donor Action programme

Transplant International

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-25

  Pugliese, Maria Rosa ^a   Esposti, Daniela Degli ^a   Dormi, Ada ^b   Venturoli, Nicola ^a   Gaito, Paolo Mazzetti ^a   Buscaroli, Andrea ^b   Petropulacos, Kyriakoula ^c   Costa, Alessandro Nanni ^d   Ridolfi, Lorenza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Regional Health Authority   (Italy)

^d National Transplant Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain death; Organ donors; Organ procurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR ACTION PROGRAM; DYING; FEMALE; GENDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0037603643     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2003.tb00218.x     Document Type: Article

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