AST/ASTS workshop on increasing organ donation in the United States: Creating an "arc of change" from Removing disincentives to testing incentives

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1173-1179

  Salomon, D R ^a   Langnas, A N ^b   Reed, A I ^c   Bloom, R D ^d   Magee, J C ^e   Gaston, R S ^f  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Donors and donation, donors and donation: deceased, donors and donation: incentives, donors and donation: living; ethics and public policy, law legislation, organ transplantation in general

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRAFFICKING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; REIMBURSEMENT; TRANSPLANT SURGEON; UNITED STATES; DONOR; ECONOMICS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL TOURISM; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MEDICAL TOURISM; MOTIVATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928072115     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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