Should health care professionals encourage living kidney donation?
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Should health care professionals encourage living kidney donation?
Living kidney donation provides a promising opportunity in situations where the scarcity of cadaveric kidneys is widely acknowledged. While many patients and their relatives are willing to accept its benefits, others are concerned about living kidney programs; they appear to feel pressured into accepting living kidney transplantations as the only proper option for them. As we studied the attitu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1386-7423,1572-8633
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-006-9002-x