Canadian survey of clinical status at dialysis initiation 1998 - 1999: A multicenter prospective survey

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 282-288

  Curtis, B M ^a   Barrett, B J ^a   Jindal, K ^a   Djurdjev, O ^a   Levin, A ^a   Barre, P ^a   Bernstein, K ^a   Blake, P ^a   Carlisle, E ^a   Cartier, P ^a   Clase, C ^a   Culleton, B ^a   Deziel, C ^a   Donnelly, S ^a   Ethier, J ^a   Fine, A ^a   Ganz, G ^a   Goldstein, M ^a   Kappel, J ^a   Langlois, S ^a   Mendelssohn, D ^a   Muirhead, N ^a   Murphy, B ^a   Pylpchuk, G ^a   Toffelmire, E ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dialysis initiation; Late referral

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREMIA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CANADA; CREATININE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036790582     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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