American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 49, Issue 2 , Pages 284-293 , February 2007

A Recipient Risk Score for Deceased Donor Renal Allocation

Received 21 June 2006 ,Accepted 11 October 2006.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2006.10.018 on December 26, 2006.Support: This work was supported by NIH grant T32 DK07198-26 (E.S.B.-B.) and The Mayo Foundation. Potential conflicts of interest: None.

PII: S0272-6386(06)01617-9

doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2006.10.018

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 49, Issue 2 , Pages 284-293 , February 2007

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