Population income and longitudinal trends in living kidney donation in the United States

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 201-207

  Gill, Jagbir ^a   Dong, Jianghu ^a   Gill, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LINEAR MODELS; LIVING DONORS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924181285     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2014010113     Document Type: Article

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