Counselling the elderly between hope and reality

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2079-2081

  De Fijter, Johan W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; DIALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGING; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 79959929236     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr219     Document Type: Note

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