Attitude of Health Care Professionals to Organ Donation: Two Surveys Among the Staff of a German University Hospital

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-129

  Radunz, S ^a   Hertel, S ^b   Schmid, K W ^c   Heuer, M ^a   Stommel, P ^d   Fruhauf N R ^a,e   Saner, F H ^a   Paul, A ^a   Kaiser, G M ^a  

^a Region North ^*  (Germany)

^b Institute for Medical Informatics   (Germany)

^c Institute of Pathology Neuropathology and Molecular Pathology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e German Foundation of Organ Transplantation (DSO)   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL STAFF; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 77049090899     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.12.034     Document Type: Article

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