Pre-dialysis clinic attendance improves quality of life among hemodialysis patients

BMC Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-8

  White, Christine A ^a   Pilkey, Rachel M ^b   Lam, Miu ^b   Holland, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; PATIENT CARE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EPISODE OF CARE; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 3342971017     PISSN: 14712369     EISSN: 14712369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-3-3     Document Type: Article

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