Validity of Physician Billing Claims to Identify Deceased Organ Donors in Large Healthcare Databases

• Alvin Ho-ting Li,

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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• S. Joseph Kim,

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jagadish Rangrej,

  Affiliation Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada

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• Damon C. Scales,

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Salimah Shariff,

  Affiliation Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada

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• Donald A. Redelmeier,

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Greg Knoll,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Ann Young,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Amit X. Garg

  * E-mail: amit.garg@lhsc.on.ca

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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