Religious beliefs and quality of life in an American inner-city haemodialysis population

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2985-2990

  Ko, Benjamin ^a   Khurana, Amandeep ^a   Spencer, Judy ^a   Scott, Barb ^a   Hahn, Marsha ^a   Hammes, Mary ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Haemodialysis (HD); Quality of life; Religion; Spiritual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPIRITUALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36048936381     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm341     Document Type: Article

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