Development and validation of a tool for assessing understanding of brain death

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-276

  Tawil, Isaac ^a   Marinaro, Jonathan ^a   Brown, Lawrence H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN DEATH; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN DEATH; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 73349114954     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/prtr.19.3.103l2822n4536391     Document Type: Article

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