The weekend effect alters the procurement and discard rates of deceased donor kidneys in the United States

Kidney International

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 157-163

  Mohan, Sumit ^a,b,c   Foley, Karl ^a   Chiles, Mariana C ^a,c   Dube, Geoffrey K ^a   Patzer, Rachel E ^d,e   Pastan, Stephen O ^d   Crew, R John ^a   Cohen, David J ^a   Ratner, Lloyd E ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c The Columbia University Renal Epidemiology ^*  (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

organ allocation; outcomes; renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLD ISCHEMIA; DECEASED DONOR; DONOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UNITED STATES; ALLOGRAFT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; ODDS RATIO; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSPLANTATION;

ALLOGRAFTS; DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ODDS RATIO; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988417482     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2016.03.007     Document Type: Article

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