The 15-item geriatric depression scale as a predictor of mortality in older adults undergoing hemodialysis

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1563-1565

  Balogun, Rasheed A ^a   Balogun, Seki A ^a   Kepple, Alyson L ^a   Ma, Jennie Z ^a   Turgut, Faruk ^b   Kovesdy, Csaba P ^c   Abdel Rahman, Emaad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Iskenderun State Hospital   (Turkey)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VIRGINIA;

EID: 80051740485     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03533.x     Document Type: Letter

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