Variation in structure and delivery of care between kidney transplant centers in the United States.

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Published in Transplantation on September 15, 2014

Authors

Ajay Israni1, Carl E Dean, Nicholas Salkowski, Suying Li, Lloyd E Ratner, Hamid Rabb, Neil R Powe, S Joseph Kim

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 2 Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 3 Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN. 4 Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY. 5 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 6 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA. 7 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 8 Address correspondence to: Ajay Israni, M.S., M.D., Department of Nephrology, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Ave., Minneapolis MN.

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