Barriers facing patients referred for kidney transplant cause loss to follow-up

Kidney International

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1018-1023

  Kazley, Abby S ^a   Simpson, Kit N ^a   Chavin, Kenneth D ^a   Baliga, Prabhakar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

access to kidney transplant; barriers to transplant; ESRD; lost to follow up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84867578503     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2012.255     Document Type: Article

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