Transplant professionals vary in the long-term medical risks they communicate to potential living kidney donors: An international survey

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3040-3045

  Housawi, A A ^a,b   Young, A ^a   Boudville, N ^a,c   Thiessen Philbrook, H ^a   Muirhead, N ^a   Rehman, F ^a   Parikh, C R ^d   Al Obaidli, A ^e   El Triki, A ^a   Garg, A X ^a,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SHEIKH KHALIFA MEDICAL CITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consent; Donor nephrectomy; Living kidney donation; Long term complications; Risk communication; Survey

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; E-MAIL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; NEPHROLOGIST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NEPHROLOGY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34548369410     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm305     Document Type: Article

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