Major difficulties the US nephrologist faces in providing adequate dialysis

Blood Purification

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-52

  Diaz Buxo, Jose A ^a,b   Crawford Bonadio, Terri L ^a  

^a FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis adequacy; Medical economics

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEMODIALYSIS; HOME DIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; NEPHROLOGIST; NURSING EDUCATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MEDICARE; NEPHROLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RENAL DIALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845791053     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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