Nephrologists' perceptions of renal transplant as treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease, preemptive transplant, and transplanting older patients: An international survey

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 223-229

  Ghahramani, Nasrollah ^a   Karparvar, Zahra Yeganeh ^a   Ghahramani, Mehrdad ^b   Shrivastava, Pritika ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude; Demographics; Disparities; Geographic; Kidney; Opinions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; URBAN AREA;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84860416875     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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