Comparing dialysis modalities for critically ill patients: Are we barking up the wrong tree?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-414

  Mehta, Ravindra L ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STANDARD;

ACUTE DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 34748880559     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01330307     Document Type: Editorial

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