Should Patients Remain on Intensive Hemodialysis Rather than Choosing to Receive a Kidney Transplant?

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 516-519

  McFarlane, Philip A ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 78049414831     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2010.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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