'They don't last long': Aboriginal patient experience of end-stage renal disease in Central Australia

Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Devitt, Jeannie ^a,b   Mcmasters, Anthony ^a  

^a Ctrl Australian Aboriginal Congress   (Australia)

^b CRC for Aboriginal and Trop Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0032454642     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.1998.tb00485.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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