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The AJT Report: News and issues that affect organ and tissue transplantation
Author(s) -
PONDROM SUE
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03707.x
Subject(s) - medicine , affect (linguistics) , transplantation , kidney transplantation , matching (statistics) , organ transplantation , intensive care medicine , surgery , pathology , communication , sociology
UNOS has given its Kidney Transplantation Committee the green light to develop a new kidney allocation policy based on a concept intended to improve age‐matching and survival rates. This month, “The AJT Report” takes a closer look at this concept and speaks with some of its supporters and opponents.