Health-related quality of life and employment among renal transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 411-417

  Chisholm Burns, Marie A ^a   Erickson, Steven R ^b   Spivey, Christina A ^a   Kaplan, Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment; Quality of life; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FATIGUE SUBSCALE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANT QUESTIONNAIRE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL COMPONENT SUMMARY; PHYSICAL COMPONENT SUMMARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SHORT FORM 12;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862260945     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01541.x     Document Type: Article

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