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Editorial
. 2019 Oct;19(10):2675-2677.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.15508. Epub 2019 Jul 17.

Improving OPO performance through national data availability

Brianna L Doby  1 , Brian J Boyarsky  2 , Sommer Gentry  2   3 , Dorry L Segev  2   4
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Editorial

Improving OPO performance through national data availability

Brianna L Doby et al. Am J Transplant. 2019 Oct.
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Keywords: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN); donors and donation: deceased; donors and donation: donation after brain death (DBD); donors and donation: donation after circulatory death (DCD); donors and donation: standard criteria; editorial/personal viewpoint; ethics and public policy; law/legislation; organ procurement and allocation; organ transplantation in general.

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