Epidemiology and management of end-stage renal disease in the elderly

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 591-598

  Brown, Edwina A ^a   Johansson, Lina ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; FALLING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FRAIL ELDERLY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALNUTRITION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 80053340714     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.113     Document Type: Review

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