Transplant recipients' conceptions of three key phenomena in transplantation: The organ donation, the organ donor, and the organ transplant

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-400

  Sanner, Margareta A ^a  

^a Dept of Public Health/Caring Sci   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body; Defence strategies; Organ donor; Organ recipient; Psychology; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENIAL; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CADAVER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 0042121366     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2003.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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