Accountability for end-stage organ care: Implications of geographic variation in access to kidney transplantation

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 734-742

  Axelrod, David A ^a,b   Lentine, Krista L ^c   Xiao, Huiling ^c   Bubolz, Thomas ^b   Goodman, David ^b   Freeman, Richard ^a   Tuttle Newhall, Janet E ^c   Schnitzler, Mark A ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART DEATH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899632832     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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