Measuring disparate impacts and extending disparate impact doctrine to organ transplantation

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Bornholz, Robert ^a   Heckman, James J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LEGAL LIABILITY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 12744263201     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2005.0036     Document Type: Review

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