Palliative care and withholding and withdrawing dialysis

Dialysis and Transplantation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 154-155

  Holley, Jean L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 79954459330     PISSN: 00902934     EISSN: 19326920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dat.20552     Document Type: Article

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