Kidney organ donation: developing family practice initiatives to reverse inertia.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on May 17, 2010

Authors

Emmanouil K Symvoulakis1, Emilia Stavroulaki, Myfanwy Morgan, Roger Jones

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Blood Donation, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. symvouman@yahoo.com

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