Measuring and explaining racial and ethnic differences in willingness to donate live kidneys in the United States

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 673-683

  Purnell, Tanjala S ^a,b,c   Powe, Neil R ^d   Troll, Misty U ^c   Wang, Nae Yuh ^a,b,c   Haywood, Carlton ^c,e   Laveist, Thomas A ^b,e   Boulware, L Ebony ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Live donor kidney transplantation; Live kidney donation; Minority donation; Racial ethnic disparities; Willingness to donate live kidneys

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; MALE; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

LIVE DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVE KIDNEY DONATION; MINORITY DONATION; RACIAL-ETHNIC DISPARITIES; WILLINGNESS TO DONATE LIVE KIDNEYS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884975082     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12196     Document Type: Article

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