The transplant experience of liver recipients: Ethical issues and practice implications

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 65-88

  Jones, Jill B ^a   Egan, Marcia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical dilemmas; Liver transplant recipients; Liver transplantation; Organ transplantation; Post transplant recovery; Practice issues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTERCARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033789576     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v31n02_06     Document Type: Article

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