Motives for becoming a living kidney donor

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1600-1605

  Lennerling, Annette ^a   Forsberg, Anna ^b   Meyer, Käthe ^c   Nyberg, Gudrun ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Information; Kidney transplantation; Living donor; Motives; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; NORWAY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REIMBURSEMENT; RELIGION; SELF ESTEEM; SWEDEN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION;

EID: 2942711593     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh138     Document Type: Article

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