Factors affecting eye donation from postmortem cases in a tertiary care hospital

Cornea

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 597-601

  Tandon, Radhika ^a   Verma, Kamna ^a   Vanathi, M ^a   Pandey, R M ^b   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Eye donation; Postmortem corneal retrieval

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COUNSELING; EVALUATION; EYE DONATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RELATIVE; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; CHILD; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EYE; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 3342907151     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000121706.58571.f6     Document Type: Article

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