Lost in translation: Cultural obstructions impede living kidney donation among minority ethnic patients

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 505-516

  Alnaes, Anne Hambro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LANGUAGE; LIVING DONOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; NORWAY; PAKISTAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION;

AFRICA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LANGUAGE; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NORWAY; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84864354409     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180112000278     Document Type: Article

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