Geographic disparities in access to organ transplant in France

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1385-1388

  Roudot Thoraval, Françoise ^a   Romano, Philippe ^b   Spaak, Francis ^a   Houssin, Didier ^b   Durand Zaleski, Isabelle ^a,c  

^a AP HP   (France)

^b Etablissement Francais des Greffes   (France)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

CADAVER; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0242460569     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000090284.25513.CE     Document Type: Review

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