Variation in cadaveric organ donor rates in the UK

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 963-968

  Wight, Jeremy ^a   Jakubovic, Michael ^b   Walters, Stephen ^a   Maheswaran, Ravi ^a   White, Paul ^a   Lennon, Veronica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Eastern Wakefield Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organ donation; Transplantation; Variation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL DEATH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CADAVER DONOR; CADAVER KIDNEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MINORITY GROUP; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CADAVER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 1842471104     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg618     Document Type: Article

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