Racial differences in the living kidney donation experience and implications for education

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 234-240

  Lunsford, Shayna L ^a   Shilling, Lilless M ^a   Chavin, Kenneth D ^a   Martin, Margaret S ^a   Miles, Lucia G ^a   Norman, Michele L ^b   Baliga, Prabhakar K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT EDUCATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 34548770088     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.17.3.np2316450n345u67     Document Type: Article

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