Studying the quality of life after organ transplantation: Research problems and solutions

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1259-1269

  Joralemon, Donald ^a   Fujinaga, Kim Mika ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Organ transplantation; Quality of life; Research methods

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030940158     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00256-0     Document Type: Article

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