Avoiding the issue: Patients' (non)communication with potential living kidney donors

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-44

  Kranenburg, Leonieke W ^a   Richards, Martin ^b   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)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counselling; Family communication; Family relationships; Living kidney donation; Patient support program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; DONOR SELECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 56949106525     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.07.028     Document Type: Article

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