Decision-making and risk-assessment in living liver donation: How informed is the informed consent of donors? A qualitative study

Psychosomatics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 312-319

  Papachristou, Christina ^a   Marc, Walter ^a   Frommer, Jeorg ^a   Klapp, Burghard F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENIAL; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL RISK; TERMINAL DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; LIVING DONOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955608586     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.51.4.312     Document Type: Article

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