A new law for allocation of donor organs in Israel

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9720, 2010, Pages 1131-1133

  Lavee, Jacob ^a,b   Ashkenazi, Tamar ^b   Gurman, Gabriel ^b   Steinberg, David ^c,d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAW; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORALITY; ORGAN DONOR; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77949875843     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61795-5     Document Type: Note

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