Dialysis for everybody? At any cost?

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2002, Pages

  Rombolà, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b Divisione di Ematologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Doctor patient relationship; Ethics in medicine; Health related quality of life; Renal replacement therapy; Value of life; Withholding withdrawal dialysis treatment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; DEATH; DIALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; ITALY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; THERAPY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0036878191     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: 17246059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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