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Who gets the liver transplant? The use of responsibility as the tie breaker
- Correspondence to Ms V Thornton, Directorate of Nursing, University of Liverpool, 1st Floor, Whelan Building, The Quadrangle, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK; v.thornton{at}liv.ac.uk
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Who gets the liver transplant? The use of responsibility as the tie breaker
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- Received February 24, 2009
- Revised June 23, 2009
- Accepted July 22, 2009
- First published November 30, 2009.
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November 30, 2009
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