How patients manage life and health while waiting for a liver transplant

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-60

  Baker, M Susan ^a   McWilliam, Carol L ^b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037336110     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.13.1.18r483vr21423520     Document Type: Article

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