Aging veterans and the end-stage renal disease management dilemma in the millennium

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 456-460

  Vachharajani, Tushar J ^a,b   Atray, Naveen K ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Chronic kidney disease; End of life issues; Ethics; Palliative care; Withdrawal of dialysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS CATHETER; ELDERLY CARE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VETERAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOUISIANA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VETERANS;

EID: 35148868362     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2007.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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