Development and psychometric evaluation of the instrument: Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy scale (ATODAS)

Open Nursing Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 65-73

  Flodén, Anne ^a   Lennerling, Annette ^b   Fridh, Isabell ^b   Rizell, Magnus ^a   Forsberg, Anna ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Brain death; Intensive and critical care; Nursing; Organ donation; Psychometric evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80555134510     PISSN: 18744346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874434601105010065     Document Type: Article

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