Recruitment of live donors by candidates for kidney transplantation

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1152-1159

  Reese, Peter P ^a   Shea, Judy A ^a   Berns, Jeffrey S ^a   Simon, Maureen K ^a   Joffe, Marshall M ^a   Bloom, Roy D ^a   Feldman, Harold I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 49149109076     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03660807     Document Type: Article

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