Live kidney donation: Attitudes towards donor approach, motives and factors promoting donation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2517-2525

  Mazaris, Evangelos M ^a   Warrens, Anthony N ^a   Smith, Glenn ^a   Tekkis, Paris ^a   Papalois, Vassilios E ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donor motives; Kidney transplantation; Live donor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MOTIVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861889864     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr642     Document Type: Article

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