The dilemma of renal replacement therapy patients over 80 years of age. Dialysis should not be withheld

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-36

  Schaefer, Klaus ^a   Röhrich, Bernhard ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0344177577     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.1.35     Document Type: Short Survey

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