Psychological barriers for living kidney donation: How to inform the potential donors?

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 965-971

  Kranenburg, Leonieke W ^a   Zuidema, Willij C ^a   Weimar, Willem ^a   Hilhorst, Medard T ^a   IJzermans, Jan N M ^a   Passchier, Jan ^a   Busschbach, Jan J V ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Living kidney donation; Psychology; Waiting list

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PATIENTS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 37349108155     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000284981.83557.dc     Document Type: Article

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