Deceased organ donation consent rates among racial and ethnic minorities and older potential donors

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 496-505

  Goldberg, David S ^a   Halpern, Scott D ^a   Reese, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain dead donors; consent rates; eligible death; organ consent; organ donation; organ procurement organization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN DEATH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NEWBORN; ORGAN DONOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMED CONSENT; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873378604     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318271198c     Document Type: Article

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