Burden on caregivers as perceived by hemodialysis patients in the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) trials

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2316-2322

  Suri, Rita S ^a   Larive, Brett ^b   Garg, Amit X ^a   Hall, Yoshio N ^c   Pierratos, Andreas ^d   Chertow, Glenn M ^e   Gorodetskeya, Irina ^f   Kliger, Alan S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

burden; caregiver; depression; frequent hemodialysis; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT FORM 36;

CAREGIVERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79959939886     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr007     Document Type: Article

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