"Daily" dialysis - Lessons from a randomized, controlled trial

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2363-2364

  Twardowski, Zbylut J ^a   Misra, Madhukar ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REIMBURSEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 78649838253     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1012205     Document Type: Editorial

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