Non-heart-beating organ donation in Canada: Time to proceed?

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Published in CMAJ on August 19, 2003

Authors

Greg A Knoll1, John E Mahoney

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON.

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