Are there Geographical Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation in Atlantic Canada?
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Racial and ethnic disparities in access to liver transplantation.
Access to liver transplantation is reportedly inequitable for racial/ethnic minorities, but inadequate adjustments for geography and disease progression preclude any meaningful conclusions. We aimed to evaluate the association between candidate race/ethnicity and liver transplant rates after thorough adjustments for these factors and to determine how uniform racial/ethnic disparities were acros...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0835-7900
DOI: 10.1155/2012/627239