Responding to requests for dialysis for severely demented and brain injured patients

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 387-390

  Spike, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DIALYSIS; ETHICS; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DIALYSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 34748909413     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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