A model of donors' decision-making in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation in Japan: Having no choice

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 768-774

  Fujita, Misao ^a,b   Akabayashi, Akira ^b   Slingsby, Brian Taylor ^b   Kosugi, Shinji ^a   Fujimoto, Yasuhiro ^c   Tanaka, Koichi ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33646440875     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20689     Document Type: Article

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