Willingness to Donate Organs: Report on a Biethnic Medicare Population

Medicine of the Americas

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 120-125

  Romero, Linda J ^a   Vigil, Justin J ^b   Lindeman, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0442328587     PISSN: 15313069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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