Impact of surgeon acceptance parameters on cost and availability of corneal donor tissue for transplantation

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 737-740

  Woodward, Maria A ^a,d   Ross, Kevin W ^b   Requard, John J ^c   Sugar, Alan ^a   Shtein, Roni M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Midwest Eye Banks   (United States)

^c Vision Share   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Cost analysis; Eye diseases; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CELL DENSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYEBANK; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CELL COUNT; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR SELECTION; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE BANKS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84879146176     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182685cb2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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