Outcomes of a provincial home haemodialysis programme - A two-year experience: Establishing benchmarks for programme evaluation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2647-2652

  Komenda, Paul ^a,b,c,d   Copland, Michael ^a,b   Er, Lee ^b   Djurdjev, Ognjenka ^b   Levin, Adeera ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b British Columbia Provincial Renal Agency   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Home haemodialysis; Patient selection; Programme evaluation; Technique survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMODIALYSIS; HOME DIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BENCHMARKING; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS, HOME; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48749102388     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn065     Document Type: Article

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