Quality of life and alternate nightly nocturnal home hemodialysis

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-38

  van Eps, Carolyn L ^a,b   Jeffries, Janine K ^a   Johnson, David W ^a,b   Campbell, Scott B ^a,b   Isbel, Nicole M ^a,b   Mudge, David W ^a,b   Hawley, Carmel M ^a,b  

^a Department of Nephrology ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

6 minute walk test; Hemodialysis; KDQOL; Nocturnal; Quality of life; Quotidian

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CREATININE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE BINDING AGENT; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA; VITAMIN D;

6 MINUTE WALK TEST; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG USE; EMOTIONALITY; ENERGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HOME DIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCTURNAL HOME HEMODIALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SUPPLEMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VASCULAR ACCESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS, HOME; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77349099045     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2009.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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