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Inefficiency in Cadaveric Organ Procurement.

The shortage of cadaveric human organs made available for transplantation has reached critical proportions and is now causing over 6000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Economically, this shortage appears to stem from at least two principal underlying causes, both of which are attributab...

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Published in:Southern Economic Journal Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 13 - 27
Main Authors: Beard, Randolph, Kaserman, David L., Saba, Richard P.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2006
Subjects:
United States
Supply & demand
Mortality
Organs (Anatomy)
Organ donors
Organ & tissue transplantation laws
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