Kidney allocation in Canada - a Canadian forum : report and recommendations : H14-14/2007E-PDF
This report presents local and regional models for recommendations for practitioners and health care providers on allocating donor kidneys from deceased and non-directed living donors to patients on waiting lists. The recommendations cover human leukocyte antigen matching; wait times for patients on dialysis; medical issues, such as priority given to children, young adults and combined organ transplant recipients, age matching, criteria for kidneys and recipients, and medical urgency; ranking of patients; and information systems and research.
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Health Canada. |
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| Collaborating author | Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation. |
| Title | Kidney allocation in Canada - a Canadian forum : report and recommendations |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Other formats | Paper-[English | French] |
| Publishing information | Edmonton - Alberta : Health Canada February 2007. |
| Description | 65p.graphs, references, tables |
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| Subject terms | Organ transplantation |