The relationship between ethnicity and outcomes in solid organ transplantation

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 721-723

  Gaston, Robert S ^a,b   Benfield, Mark ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b Division of Nephrology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; EDITORIAL; ETHNOLOGY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEGRO; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RECIPIENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28844436338     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.08.069     Document Type: Editorial

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