How African Americans express their intentions to be organ donors

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-280

  Korda, Holly ^a   Wagstaff, David A ^b   McCleary, Karl J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 37049031953     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.17.4.p4149rt772386975     Document Type: Article

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