Removing Financial Disincentives to Organ Donation: An Acceptable Next Step?
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Removing financial disincentives to organ donation: an acceptable next step?
The numbers are all too familiar, and are repeated so often in the arena of kidney disease that they start to lose meaning, becoming slightly hollow, empty, and spokenwith a feeling of resignation. There are.90,000 people on the kidney transplant waiting list and this number is growing. The number of kidney transplants performed annually is only one-fifth of the waiting list overall. The mortal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.11021012