Liver Transplantation
Volume 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1112-1113

Eliminating transplant tourism in the United States as a means to decrease wait-list mortality of US residents (Letter)

Goldberg D.S.* , Schiano T.D.
  • a Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
  • b Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

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Index Keywords

hospital admission management Tissue Donors donor Letter human epidemiology priority journal transplant tourism factual database Databases, Factual transplant surgeon procedures organ donor Tissue and Organ Procurement resident United States transplantation Humans Waiting Lists liver transplantation clinical article supply and distribution legislation and jurisprudence acute liver failure policy making adult graft recipient health care access medical tourism public opinion emporiatrics mortality Health Services Accessibility health care delivery
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DOI: 10.1002/lt.24157
ISSN: 15276465
Original Language: English