Living Kidney Donation – Subjective Experiences of Donors before and Two Years after Donation
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Living Kidney Donation—Subjective Experiences of Donors before and Two Years after Donation
Little is known about long-term quality of life of kidney donors. We studied subjective experiences of donors before and two years after kidney donation using in-depth interviews of eleven subjects. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed by qualitative content analysis (grounded theory). Resulting categories of this process were grouped in order to construct ideal types of subjec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Journal of Organ Transplant Surgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2163-9485,2163-9493
DOI: 10.4236/ojots.2012.24006