Dialysis: Peritoneal dialysis vs hemodialysis: Time to end the debate?

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 308-310

  Blake, Peter G ^a   Suri, Rita S ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 79957805019     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.55     Document Type: Short Survey

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