Racial and ethnic disparities in end stage renal disease: Access failure

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 196-198

  Hall, Yoshio N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84857149155     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.13021211     Document Type: Editorial

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