The financial burden of transplantation: A single-center survey of liver and kidney transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-300

  Rodrigue, James R ^a   Reed, Alan I ^b   Nelson, David R ^b   Jamieson, Ian ^c   Kaplan, Bruce ^d   Howard, Richard J ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic; Financial burden; Kidney transplantation; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COST; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

ADULT; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; FINANCING, PERSONAL; FLORIDA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547903231     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000269797.41202.79     Document Type: Article

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