Exploring families' experiences of an organ donation request after brain death

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 654-665

  Manzari, Zahra Sadat ^a   Mohammadi, Eesa ^a   Heydari, Abbas ^b   Sharbaf, Hamid Reza Aghamohammadian ^c   Azizi, Mohammad Jafar Modabber ^b   Khaleghi, Ebrahim ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c University of Mashhad   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain dead; families experiences; organ donation; organ request; qualitative content analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; ETHICS; FAMILY; GRIEF; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINAL CARE; TRANSPLANTATION; TRUST;

BRAIN DEATH; FAMILY; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAN; TERMINAL CARE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRUST;

EID: 84866553845     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733011423410     Document Type: Article

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