Health related quality of life (HRQOL) of kidney transplanted patients: Variables that influence it

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 199-207

  Rebollo, Pablo ^a   Ortega, Francisco ^a   Baltar, José M ^a   Badí, Xavier ^b   Alvarez Ude, Fernando ^c   Díaz Corte, Carmen ^a   Naves, Manuel ^a   Navascúes, Rafael A ^a   Ureña, Ana ^a   Alvarez Grande, Jaime ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL DE SEGOVIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Nephrology; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 0034011034     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2000.140304.x     Document Type: Article

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