Knowledge, attitudes and practices survey on organ donation among a selected adult population of Pakistan

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Saleem, Taimur ^a   Ishaque, Sidra ^a   Habib, Nida ^a   Hussain, Syedda Saadia ^a   Jawed, Areeba ^a   Khan, Aamir Ali ^a   Ahmad, Muhammad Imran ^a   Iftikhar, Mian Omer ^a   Mughal, Hamza Pervez ^a   Jehan, Imtiaz ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY DONOR; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MOTIVATION; ORGAN DONOR; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEVISION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTIVATION; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEVISION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 67649757378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-10-5     Document Type: Article

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