Association Between Achievement of Hemodialysis Quality-of-Care Indicators and Quality-of-Life Scores

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1098-1107

  Lacson Jr , Eduardo ^a   Xu, Jianglin ^a   Lin, Shu Fang ^a   Dean, Sandie Guerra ^a   Lazarus, J Michael ^a   Hakim, Raymond ^a  

^a FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

36 Item Short Form Health Survey (SF 36); clinical performance measures (CPMs); continuous quality improvement (CQI); end stage renal disease (ESRD); Hemodialysis (HD); quality of life (QoL)

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PHOSPHORUS;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PHOSPHORUS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 70449624839     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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