The influence of socio-demographic factors, treatment perceptions and attitudes to living donation on willingness to consider living kidney donor among kidney transplant candidates

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2569-2576

  Zimmerman, Deborah ^a   Albert, Shelley ^b   Llewellyn Thomas, Hilary ^c   Hawker, Gillian A ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benefit; Dialysis; Living donor kidney transplantation; Risk; Willingness

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CADAVER KIDNEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFESPAN; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; POSTAL MAIL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RELATIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750112621     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl218     Document Type: Article

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