When to start chronic dialysis: Tunnel vision induced by numbers?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2405-2407

  Van Biesen, Wim ^a   Vanholder, Raymond ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

comorbidity; dialysis; glomerular filtration rate; initiation; outcome

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANURIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DIALYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; UREMIA; DISEASE COURSE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954769073     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq391     Document Type: Note

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