Marital Quality in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Easy to Predict, Hard to Neglect

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1085-1087

  Fathi Ashtiani, A ^a   Karami, G R ^a   Einollahi, B ^b   Assari, S ^b   Aghanasiri, F ^b   Najafi, M ^b   Nemati, E ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 34248522580     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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