The donation process of living kidney donors

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1707-1713

  Sanner, Margareta A ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; Interviews; Living kidney donors; Motives; Organ donation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; SWEDEN;

EID: 26444603084     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh861     Document Type: Article

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