Quality of life of living kidney donors: The short-form 36-item health questionnaire survey

Urology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 588-592

  Isotani, Shuji ^a   Fujisawa, Masato ^a   Ichikawa, Yasuji ^b   Ishimura, Takeshi ^a   Matsumoto, Osamu ^c   Hamami, Gaku ^d   Arakawa, Soichi ^a   Iijima, Kazumoto ^a   Yoshikawa, Norishige ^e   Nagano, Shunsuke ^b   Kamidono, Sadao ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Hyogo Prefectural Nishinomiya Hospital   (Japan)

^c Miki City Hospital   (Japan)

^d Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital   (Japan)

^e WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036776159     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(02)01865-4     Document Type: Article

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