Palliative care in nephrology

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 789-791

  Brown, Edwina A ^a   Chambers, Elizabeth Joanna ^b   Eggeling, Celia ^c  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST HELIER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Palliative care; Patient choice; Quality of death

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DYING; EDITORIAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 42449141976     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm874     Document Type: Editorial

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