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Does a home-based education program improve rates of living donor kidney transplantation?

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boxed-textRodrigue JR et al. (2007) Increasing live donor kidney transplantation: a randomized controlled trial of a home-based educational intervention. Am J Transplant 7: 394–401

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ST Bartlett has previously received grants from the following companies: Astellas Pharma, Novartis, Roche and Wyeth–Ayerst. FG Pradel declared she has no competing interests.

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