Impact of geographic location on access to liver transplantation among ethnic minorities

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-170

  Kemmer, Nyingi ^a,b,c   Safdar, Kamran ^a   Kaiser, Tiffany ^a   Zacharias, Victoria ^a   Neff, Guy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Ethnicity; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MINORITY GROUPS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38549109983     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31816223f8     Document Type: Article

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