Predictors of candidate maturation among potential living donors

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2549-2554

  Verna, Elizabeth C ^a,b   Hunt, Kristel H ^a   Renz, John F ^a,b   Rudow, Dianne LaPointe ^a   Hafliger, Sylvia ^a,b   Dove, Lorna M ^a,b   Kinkhabwala, Milan ^a   Emond, Jean C ^a,b   Brown Jr , Robert S ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; Liver transplant; Living donor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RELIGION; SIBLING; SPOUSE; TECHNIQUE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FAMILY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; LIVER DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33644673438     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2005.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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