Assessing organ donation from the dead should not be done by reporting a census of the living

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1185-1187

  Luskin, Richard S ^a   Delmonico, Francis L ^a  

^a New England Organ Bank   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; ORGAN DONOR; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTRATION; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATABASES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SPAIN; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 0141781193     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-6143.2003.00241.x     Document Type: Review

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