Perceived knowledge among patients cared for by nephrologists about chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease therapies

Kidney International

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1178-1184

  Finkelstein, Fredric O ^a   Story, Kenneth ^b   Firanek, Catherine ^b   Barre, Paul ^c   Takano, Tomoko ^c   Soroka, Steven ^d   Mujais, Salim ^e   Rodd, Kathleen ^f   Mendelssohn, David ^g  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e ASTELLAS PHARMA GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^f New Haven CAPD   (United States)

^g Humber Mem Hosp   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Dialysis modality; Kidney transplantation; Patient education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CANADA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53949095626     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.376     Document Type: Article

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