Kidney transplantation: determination of the problems encountered by Turkish patients and their knowledge and practices on healthy living

Talas M., Bayraktar N.

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, vol.13, no.5, pp.580-588, 2004 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 13 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Doi Number: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2004.00966.x
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.580-588
  • Keywords: healthy living, nursing, physiologic problems, renal transplantation, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, STAGE RENAL-DISEASE
  • Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Background. Although renal transplantations remove many limitations, dialysis can improve quality life in patients with end-stage renal disease, once transplantation has been performed and the patient has been discharged with a functioning graft, life with a chronic illness continues.