Hospital personnel faced with organ xenotransplantation: An attitudinal survey in a hospital with a pre-clinical liver xenotransplantation program

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 447-454

  Rios A ^a,b   Conesa, C ^a,c   Ramirez P ^a,b   Galindo, P J ^b   Rodriguez M M ^a   Martinez L ^b   Montoya, M J ^b   Rodriguez J M ^b   Parrilla, P ^b  

^a Consejería de Sanidad ^*  (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^c Servicio Murciano de Salud   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitude; Hospital professionals; Organ donation; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 33747621619     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2006.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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