Which patients choose to stop dialysis?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 869-871

  Kliger, Alan S ^a   Finkelstein, Fredric O ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DIALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; FAMILY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

EID: 0038363820     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg189     Document Type: Editorial

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