Going beyond the kidney disease outcomes quality initiative: Hemodialysis access experience at Kaiser Permanente Southern California

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Glazer, Sidney ^a,b   Diesto, Jean ^a   Crooks, Peter ^a   Yeoh, Hock ^a   Pascual, Noel ^a   Selevan, David ^a   Derose, Stephen ^a   Farooq, Michael ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGIST; SURGEON; THROMBOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29744460945     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10016-005-9110-8     Document Type: Article

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