Current Canadian initiatives to reimburse live organ donors for their non-medical expenses

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 481-483

  Vlaicu, Sorina ^a   Klarenbach, Scott ^b,c   Yang, Robert C ^a   Dempster, Todd ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Costs and cost analysis; Economics; Health policy; Kidney transplantation; Living donors

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249082987     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405443     Document Type: Note

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