British citizens in a regional community of southeastern Spain with a pre-clinical organ xenotransplantation program. A study of attitude toward xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-264

  Rios A ^a,b   Ramirez P ^a,b   Martinez L ^a,b   Jarvis, N ^a   Sanchez J ^b   Rodriguez M M ^a   Alcaraz, J ^b   Montoya, M J ^c   Parrilla, P ^b  

^a Consejería de Sanidad ^*  (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL RAFAEL MÉNDEZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitude; British; Irish; Organ donation; Population; Psychosocial factors; Spain; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 34247862158     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2007.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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