Travel Time to Dialysis as a Predictor of Health-Related Quality of Life, Adherence, and Mortality: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 641-650

  Moist, Louise M ^a   Bragg Gresham, Jennifer L ^b   Pisoni, Ronald L ^b   Saran, Rajiv ^c   Akiba, Takashi ^d   Jacobson, Stefan H ^e   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^f   Mapes, Donna L ^b   Rayner, Hugh C ^g   Saito, Akira ^h   Port, Friedrich K ^b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

distance; end stage renal disease; health related quality of life; Hemodialysis; hospitalization; mortality; transportation; travel time

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TRAVEL;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40849102946     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2007.12.021     Document Type: Article

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