The use of personalized medicine for patient selection for renal transplantation: Physicians' views on the clinical and ethical implications

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dion Labrie, Marianne ^a   Fortin, Marie Chantal ^b   Hébert, Marie Josée ^b   Doucet, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JUDGMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77950673950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-11-5     Document Type: Article

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