The living donor advocate: A team approach to educate, evaluate, and manage donors across the continuum

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 64-70

  Rudow, Dianne Lapointe ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVING DONOR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVING DONORS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SELECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66149090787     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.19.1.53n8ju8520238465     Document Type: Article

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