Health insurance status of US living kidney donors

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 912-916

  Gibney, Eric M ^a   Doshi, Mona D ^b   Hartmann, Erica L ^c   Parikh, Chirag R ^d   Garg, Amit X ^e  

^a PIEDMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MALE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952313142     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.07121009     Document Type: Article

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