Transplant First, Dialysis Last
Open Access
- 1 November 2019
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Surgery
- Vol. 154 (11), 991-992
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2019.4286
Abstract
Since the establishment of the 1972 Social Security Amendment to cover permanent kidney failure, the population needing dialysis in the United States has grownThis publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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