The experience of living kidney donors

Health and Social Work

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-100

  Brown, Judith Belle ^a   Karley, Mary Lou ^b   Boudville, Neil ^c   Bullas, Ruth ^d   Garg, Amit X ^a   Muirhead, Norman ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Living kidney donor; Organ donation; Qualitative methodology; Social work assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849110817     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/33.2.93     Document Type: Article

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