Hurricane Katrina and chronic dialysis patients: Better tidings than originally feared

Kidney International

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 687-689

  Vanholder, Raymond C ^a,b   Van Biesen, Wim A ^a   Sever, Mehmet S ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Renal Disaster Relief Task Force   (Belgium)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIALYSIS; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HURRICANE; KIDNEY INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOTE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

EID: 70349219914     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.279     Document Type: Note

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