Organ Donation and Drug Intoxication-Related Deaths in the United States

N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 7;380(6):597-599. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1810758.

Authors

Muthiah Vaduganathan¹, Sara R Machado², Ersilia M DeFilippis¹, Navkaranbir Bajaj³, Josef Stehlik⁴, Elias Mossialos², John A Jarcho⁵, Mandeep R Mehra⁵

Affiliations

¹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
² London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
³ University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
⁴ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁵ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 30726698
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1810758

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Drug Overdose / mortality*
Heart Transplantation / trends
Humans
Tissue Donors / statistics & numerical data*
Tissue and Organ Procurement / trends*
United States / epidemiology