Physical symptoms and quality of life in patients on chronic dialysis: Results of the Netherlands Cooperative Study on Adequacy of Dialysis (NECOSAD)

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1163-1170

  Merkus, Maruschka P ^a   Jager, Kitty J ^a   Dekker, Friedo W ^a   De Haan, Rob J ^a   Boeschoten, Els W ^a   Krediet, Raymond T ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dialysis adequacy; End stage renal disease; Haemodialysis; Peritoneal dialysis; Quality of life; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYDRATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 0032893687     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.5.1163     Document Type: Article

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