Limiting financial disincentives in live organ donation: a rational solution to the kidney shortage.

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Published in Am J Transplant on August 04, 2006

Authors

R S Gaston1, G M Danovitch, R A Epstein, J P Kahn, A J Matas, M A Schnitzler

Author Affiliations

1: University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. rgaston@uab.edu

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