A statewide public health approach to improving organ donation: The Massachusetts Organ Donation Initiative

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-36

  Koh, Howard K ^a   Jacobson, Marsha D ^c   Lyddy, Anne Marie ^c   O'Connor, Kevin J ^b   Fitzpatrick, Sean M ^b   Krakow, Milly ^c   Judge, Christine M ^a   Alpert, Hillel R ^a   Luskin, Richard S ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b New England Organ Bank   (United States)

^c Landmark Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; STANDARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; MASSACHUSETTS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSPLANTS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33846072599     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.077701     Document Type: Review

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