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A question of give and take : improving the supply of donor organs for transplantation

Author:

Dingwall, Robert, McHale, Jean, University of Nottingham, King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), New, Bill, and Solomon, Michael

Publication date:

1994

Abstract:

Transplanting organs from one human to another is increasingly constrained by a shortage of donors. This report describes the wide variations between the number of kidney and heart transplantations and those waiting for these operations both in the United Kingdom and internationally; and how the UK could improve its performance. ...