Standardized hemodialysis prescriptions promote inadequate treatment in patients with large body mass

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 451-454

  Ifudu, Onyekachi ^a   Mayers, Joan D ^a,b   Matthew, Jocelyn J ^a,b   Fowler, Antoinette M ^a   Homel, Peter ^a,b   Friedman, Eli A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032521059     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-128-6-199803150-00005     Document Type: Article

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