Ethical Implications of Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Transplantation

Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-58

  Isaacs, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

CKD; Ethics; Ethnicity; Minorities; Race; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JUSTICE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0842288322     PISSN: 10734449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.arrt.2003.10.008     Document Type: Article

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