Can Family Attributes Explain the Racial Disparity in Living Kidney Donation?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1376-1380

  Lunsford, S L ^a   Simpson, K S ^b   Chavin, K D ^a   Mensching, K J ^c   Miles, L G ^c   Shilling, L M ^b   Smalls, G R ^a   Baliga, P K ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PAIN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34250161722     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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