Lack of health insurance in living kidney donors

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Casagrande, Lisette H ^a   Collins, Sarah ^b   Warren, Abigail T ^b   Ommen, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance; Kidney transplantation; Living donor; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859832745     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01558.x     Document Type: Article

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