Impact of the new fast track kidney allocation scheme for declined kidneys in the United Kingdom

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 872-881

  White, Alan D ^a   Roberts, Heather ^a   Ecuyer, Clare ^a   Brady, Kathryn ^a   Pathak, Samir ^a   Clark, Brendan ^a   Hostert, Lutz H ^a   Attia, Magdy S ^a   Wellberry Smith, Matthew ^a   Hudson, Alex ^b   Ahmad, Niaz ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocation; Declined; Discarded; Donation after brain death; Donation after circulatory death; Fast track; Kidney; Outcome; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAST TRACK KIDNEY ALLOCATION SCHEME; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; DONOR SELECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; GREAT BRITAIN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84942891337     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12576     Document Type: Article

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