Starting and withdrawing haemodialysis - Associations between nephrologists' opinions, patient characteristics and practice patterns (data from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study)

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2814-2820

  Lambie, Mark ^a   Rayner, Hugh C ^a   Bragg Gresham, Jennifer L ^b   Pisoni, Ronald L ^b   Andreucci, Vittorio E ^c   Canaud, Bernard ^d   Port, Friedrich K ^b   Young, Eric W ^e  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARBOR RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE FOR HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to haemodialysis; Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS); End stage renal disease; Practice patterns; Withdrawal of dialysis

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ITALY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROLOGIST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY DISEASES; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33749588864     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl339     Document Type: Article

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