Where do veterans health administration patients obtain heart, liver, and kidney transplants?

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1154-1159

  Weeks, William B ^a,b,c   West, Alan N ^a,b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA National Center for Patient Safety   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE;

EID: 36148959258     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.11.1154     Document Type: Article

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