The reasons families donate organs for transplantation: Implications for policy and practice

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 969-978

  Siminoff, Laura ^a   Mercer, Mary Beth ^a   Graham, Gregory ^a   Burant, Christopher ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SOCIAL CLASS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 34247228667     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000205220.24003.51     Document Type: Article

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