Time to rethink the timing of dialysis initiation

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 382-383

  Johansen, Kirsten L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UNITED STATES; UREMIA;

CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 79952585875     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.413     Document Type: Editorial

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