Live related donors in India: Their quality of life using world health organization quality of life brief questionnaire

Indian Journal of Urology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-29

  Vemuru Reddy, Sunil K ^a   Guleria, Sandeep ^a   Okechukwu, Okidi ^a   Sagar, Rajesh ^a   Bhowmik, Dipankar ^a   Mahajan, Sandeep ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Live related renal donors; quality of life; world health organization quality of life brief questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; KIDNEY DONOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN DONOR; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79954529891     PISSN: 09701591     EISSN: 19983824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-1591.78411     Document Type: Article

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