Paid Donation: A Global View

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 262-268

  Ghahramani, Nasrollah ^a,b   Rizvi, S Adibul Hasan ^a,b   Padilla, Benita ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Donor; Incentive; Kidney; Transplantation; Unrelated

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEE; GOVERNMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IRAN; KIDNEY DONOR; LEGAL ASPECT; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COERCION; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MEDICAL TOURISM; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; REMUNERATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNRELATED DONORS;

EID: 84862905931     PISSN: 15485595     EISSN: 15485609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ackd.2012.05.002     Document Type: Review

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