Differences in attitude toward living and postmortal liver donation in the United States, Germany, and Japan

Psychosomatics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-64

  Dahlke, Marc H ^a   Popp, Felix C ^b   Eggert, Nadine ^b   Hoy, Ludwig ^b   Tanaka, Hideaki ^b   Sasaki, Katsunori ^b   Piso, Pompiliu ^b   Schlitt, Hans J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LIVER; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; ORGAN DONOR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 11344269328     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.46.1.58     Document Type: Article

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