Symptom clusters in incident dialysis patients: Associations with clinical variables and quality of life

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 225-230

  Thong, Melissa S Y ^a   Van Dijk, Sandra ^a   Noordzij, Marlies ^b   Boeschoten, Elisabeth W ^c   Krediet, Raymond T ^d   Dekker, Friedo W ^a   Kaptein, Adrian A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Hans Mak Institute   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dialysis; ESRD; Health related quality of life; Symptom clusters; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 58049206799     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn449     Document Type: Article

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