Financial incentives to improve organ donation: What is the opinion of the Vaud French-speaking population?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Bosisio, Francesca ^a   Santiago, Marie ^a   Benaroyo, Lazare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Financial incentives; Organ donation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PHYSICIAN; SWITZERLAND; TRANSPLANTATION; ALTRUISM; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; MOTIVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ALTRUISM; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SWITZERLAND; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84855286308     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13312     Document Type: Article

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