The Organ Center of the United Network for Organ Sharing and twenty years of organ sharing in the United States

Transplantation

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 641-646

  Williams, M Christian ^a   Creger, James H ^a   Belton, A Matthew ^a   Brown, Roger S ^a   Morrison, Judith M ^a   Hardy, Mark A ^b   McDonald, John C ^c   Williams, G Melville ^d   Kauffman, H Myron ^a,e  

^a UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN;

BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CADAVER DONOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA TYPING; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 1642322771     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000113232.90613.D5     Document Type: Review

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