The combination of an online organ and tissue registry with a public education campaign can increase the number of organs available for transplantation

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 451-454

  Salim, Ali ^a   Malinoski, Darren ^b   Schulman, Danielle ^a   Desai, Chirag ^a   Navarro, Sonia ^c   Ley, Eric J ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OneLegacy Organ Procurement Organization   (United States)

Author keywords

Organ donor; Registry; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN REGISTRY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; TISSUE REGISTRY;

EID: 77955892611     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e7847a     Document Type: Article

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