Web-based requests for living organ donors: Who are the solicitors?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 749-753

  Rodrigue, James R ^a   Antonellis, Timothy ^a   Mandelbrot, Didier A ^a   Hanto, Douglas W ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Kidney transplantation; Living donation; Public solicitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; DEMOGRAPHY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTERNET; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349119409     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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