Ethics and Transplantation

Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-11

  McIlvaine, William B ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b MS #3 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; BENEFICENCE; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CONSULTATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 1942539326     PISSN: 02770326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sane.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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