Preparing renal replacement therapy in stage 4 CKD patients referred to nephrologists: A difficult balance between futility and insufficiency. A cohort study of 386 patients followed in Brussels

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 220-226

  Demoulin, Nathalie ^a   Beguin, Claire ^a   Labriola, Laura ^a   Jadoul, Michel ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

chronic kidney disease; death; renal replacement therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650652133     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq372     Document Type: Article

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