For love or money? Attitudes toward financial incentives among actual living kidney donors

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2488-2492

  Van Buren, M C ^a   Massey, E K ^a   Maasdam, L ^a   Zuidema, W C ^a   Hilhorst, M T ^a   Ijzermans, J N ^a   Weimar, W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Donors; financial incentives; living kidney donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REWARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LOVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 78349287747     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03278.x     Document Type: Article

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