Stenosis surveillance of hemodialysis grafts by duplex ultrasound reduces hospitalizations and cost of care

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 550-557

  Dossabhoy, Neville R ^a   Ram, Sunanda J ^a   Nassar, Raja ^b   Work, Jack ^c   Eason, J Mark ^d   Paulson, William D ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Fresenius Medical Care NA   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 30744473684     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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