A one-day centralized work-up for kidney transplant recipient candidates: A quality improvement report

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 288-294

  Formica, Richard N ^a   Barrantes, Fidel ^a   Asch, William S ^a   Bia, Margaret J ^a   Coca, Steven ^a   Kalyesubula, Robert ^a   McCloskey, Barbara ^b   Leary, Tucker ^b   Arvelakis, Antonios ^a   Kulkarni, Sanjay ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

access to health care; Kidney transplant; waiting list

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84863987308     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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