Efficiency of organ procurement and transplantation programs

Transplant International

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages

  Ghirardini, A ^a,b   Nanni Costa, A ^a,c,d   Venturi, S ^a,c   Ridolfi, L ^a   Petrini, F ^a   Taddei, S ^a   Venturoli, A ^a   Pugliese, M R ^a   Monti, M ^a   Martinelli, G ^a  

^a Transplant Reference Center   (Italy)

^b Transplant Procurement Management Programme   (Italy)

^c Regional Health Authority   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evaluation indexes; Organ procurement; Organ transplantation; Procurement programme efficiency; Transplant Programe efficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DONOR; EUROPE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EUROPE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0037854841     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2000.tb02034.x     Document Type: Article

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