Exploring donors' and recipients' attitudes about living donor kidney transplantation

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-210

  Pradel, Françoise G ^a,b   Mullins, C Daniel ^a   Bartlett, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 0141702291     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.13.3.277l0581808643g8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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