Factors influencing refusal by relatives of brain-dead patients to give consent for organ donation: Experience at a transplant centre

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Singh, P ^a,b   Kumar, A ^a,c   Sharma, R K ^a,c  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Dip Transplant Procurement Management   (India)

^c Department of Urology ^*

Author keywords

Consent; Organ donation; Refusal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; POSTHUMOUS CARE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SUPERSTITION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN DEATH; FAMILY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 20144373481     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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