Kidney organ donation: Developing family practice initiatives to reverse inertia

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K ^a   Stavroulaki, Emilia ^a   Morgan, Myfanwy ^b   Jones, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DONOR; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRESUMED CONSENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TISSUE DONORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77952121313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-127     Document Type: Review

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