Withdrawal from dialysis in end-stage renal disease: Medical, social, and psychological issues

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-90

  Hackett, Amy S ^a,b   Watnick, Suzanne G ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA Dialysis Unit

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; HOSPICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; SPOUSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; HOSPICES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SPOUSES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33846416893     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00249.x     Document Type: Review

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