Equity of access to renal transplant waiting list and renal transplantation in Scotland: Cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 327, Issue 7426, 2003, Pages 1261-1263

  Oniscu, Gabriel C ^a   Schalkwijk, Annemarie A H ^b   Johnson, Rachel J ^c   Brown, Helen ^d   Forsythe, John L R ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c United Kingdom Transplant   (United Kingdom)

^d HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POVERTY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCOTLAND; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0345256355     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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