Helping patients with end-stage renal disease

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 35-36

  Kuchta, Kathleen ^a   Vanbuskirk, Suzann ^b   Houglum, Mary ^a  

^a DaVita Bel Air Dialysis ^*  (United States)

^b DaVita Bel Air Dialysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICARE; NEPHROLOGY; NURSING DISCIPLINE; NURSING ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POLITICS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REIMBURSEMENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOBBYING; MEDICARE; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIETIES, NURSING; SPECIALTIES, NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247507179     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000268164.95240.c0     Document Type: Review

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