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Opting out: a single-centre pilot study assessing the reasons for and the psychosocial impact of withdrawing from living kidney donor evaluation
- Correspondence to Dr Sanjay Kulkarni, Department of Surgery, Section of Organ Transplantation and Immunology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; sanjay.kulkarni{at}yale.edu
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Opting out: a single-centre pilot study assessing the reasons for and the psychosocial impact of withdrawing from living kidney donor evaluation
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- Received March 4, 2016
- Revised November 15, 2016
- Accepted February 3, 2017
- First published March 3, 2017.
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October 24, 2017
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