Prospective psychosocial monitoring of living kidney donors using the SF-36 health survey

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 807-809

  Smith, Graeme C ^a,b   Trauer, Thomas ^a   Kerr, Peter G ^b   Chadban, Steven J ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0141478899     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000084527.65615.D3     Document Type: Article

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