The Quality of Life of Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 312, Issue 9, 1985, Pages 553-559

  Evans, Roger W ^a   Manninen, Diane L ^a   Garrison, Louis P ^a   Hart, L Gary ^a   Blagg, Christopher R ^a   Gutman, Robert A ^a   Hull, Alan R ^a   Lowrie, Edmund G ^a  

^a BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REHABILITATION; THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0021972734     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198502283120905     Document Type: Article

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