Organ donation in diverse communities: The pitfalls of race correction

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Editorial

Malay B Shah et al. Clin Transplant. 2021 Jun.

. 2021 Jun;35(6):e14368.

doi: 10.1111/ctr.14368. Epub 2021 May 26.

¹ Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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