Living kidney donation among ethnic minorities: A Dutch qualitative study on attitudes, communication, knowledge and needs of kidney patients
Background: Terminal kidney patients are faced with lower quality of life during dialysis treatment, restricted diets and high morbidity and mortality rates while waiting for a deceased donor kidney transplantation. Fortunately, living donor kidney transplantation offers an alternative with considerable advantages in terms of waiting time and graft survival rates. Nevertheless, we observed an inequality in the proportion of living kidney transplantations performed between the non-European patients and the European patients in our centre. To date little is known about the factors contributing t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | report |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
Schlagwörter: | Attitudes / communication / ethnicity / knowledge / living kidney donor / transplantation |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27452930 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/20862 |