Reasons for refusing kidney transplantation among chronic dialysis patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 419-424

  Nizič Kos, Tea ^a   Ponikvar, Anja ^a   Buturović Ponikvar, Jadranka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Expanded criteria donor; Hemodialysis; Kidney transplantation; Refusal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

DIALYSIS; EXPANDED CRITERIA DONOR; HEMODIALYSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; REFUSAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881489816     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1744-9987.12090     Document Type: Article

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