Life or Death: The Issue of Payment in Cadaveric Organ Donation

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 265, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1302-1305

  Peters, Thomas G ^a  

^a Jacksonville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH ECONOMICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BODY PARTS AND FLUIDS; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DISADVANTAGED; FAMILY MEMBERS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; INCENTIVES; ORGAN DONATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; REMUNERATION; SCARCITY; UNITED STATES; VALUES;

ALTRUISM; CADAVER; COMMERCE; HUMAN; ORGAN PROCUREMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047690076     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.265.10.1302     Document Type: Article

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