Health literacy of living kidney donors and kidney transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-93

  Dageforde, Leigh Anne ^a,b   Petersen, Alec W ^c   Feurer, Irene D ^a,b   Cavanaugh, Kerri L ^b   Harms, Kelly A ^c   Ehrenfeld, Jesse M ^b   Moore, Derek E ^a,b  

^a Vanderbilt University Transplant Center   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Health literacy; Kidney transplantation; Living donation; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SHORT LITERACY SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84903781887     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000027     Document Type: Article

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