Factors influencing the decision to donate: Racial and ethnic comparisons

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 980-990

  Glynn, Simone A ^a   Schreiber, George B ^b   Murphy, Edward L ^b   Kessler, Debra ^b   Higgins, Martha ^b   Wright, David J ^b   Mathew, Sunitha ^b   Tu, Yongling ^b   King, Melissa ^b   Smith, James W ^b  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACISM; RANDOM SAMPLE; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; BLOOD DONORS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744478381     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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