Attitudes of Swiss mothers toward unrelated umbilical cord blood banking 6 months after donation

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 604-608

  Danzer, Enrico ^b   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^b   Troeger, Carolyn ^b   Kostka, Ulrike ^b   Steimann, Sabine ^b   Bitzer, Johanes ^b   Gratwohl, Alois ^b   Tichelli, André ^b   Seelmann, Kurt ^b   Surbek, Daniel V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD STORAGE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTHER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SWITZERLAND; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0242515769     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00375.x     Document Type: Article

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