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Homicide and rates of renal transplantation in the United States and Australia
Author(s) -
Large Matthew M
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02432.x
Subject(s) - homicide , citation , mental health , transplantation , criminology , medicine , library science , psychology , sociology , psychiatry , law , political science , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , surgery , computer science
TO THE EDITOR: Critics of the proposal to legalise trade in kidneys have pointed out the low rates of renal transplantation in Australia compared with the United States, where the trade in organs is also illegal. However, it is unclear if the lower rate of renal transplantation in Australia is a result of a shortfall in transplants from living or deceased donors. First, I ranked renal transplantation rates in 2005 in US states and from Australia using the numbers of transplants from deceased and living donors from the United States Renal Data System (Beth Forrest,