Focus group interviews examining attitudes towards medical research among the Japanese: A qualitative study

Bioethics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 448-470

  Asai, Atsushi ^a   Ohnishi, Motoki ^b   Nishigaki, Etsuyo ^c   Sekimoto, Miho ^a   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^a   Fukui, Tsuguya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Welfare and Children Centre   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; JAPAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 4544271661     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2004.00409.x     Document Type: Review

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