Treatment Adherence in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Questionnaire Survey on Immunosuppressants

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1362-1365

  Ichimaru, N ^a   Kakuta, Y ^c   Abe, T ^a   Okumi, M ^a   Imamura, R ^a   Isaka, Y ^a   Nonomura, N ^a   Kojima, Y ^b,c   Okuyama, A ^a   Takahara, S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ikeda Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c Inoue Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JAPAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; NIGHT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINEURIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 45449093406     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.02.083     Document Type: Article

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