Public attitude toward xenotransplantation: Opinion survey

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2901-2905

  Rios Zambudio, Antonio R ^a,c,d   Conesa, C C ^b   Ramirez P ^a,c   Rodriguez M M ^a   Parrilla, P ^c  

^a Health Department   (Spain)

^b Centro de Salud de Fortuna   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CADAVER; DONOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPAIN; XENOGRAFT; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 17144413599     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.11.012     Document Type: Article

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