Geographic Determinants of Access to Pediatric Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
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Geographic determinants of access to pediatric deceased donor kidney transplantation.
Children receive priority in the allocation of deceased donor kidneys for transplantation in the United States, but because allocation begins locally, geographic differences in population and organ supply may enable variation in pediatric access to transplantation. We assembled a cohort of 3764 individual listings for pediatric kidney transplantation in 2005-2010. For each donor service area, w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1681/asn.2013070684