Dialysis: Can we predict death in patients on dialysis?

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 388-389

  Couchoud, Cécile ^a  

^a AGENCE DE LA BIOMÉDECINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY DECISION MAKING; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MODEL; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 77954236082     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2010.42     Document Type: Short Survey

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