End-of-life care in patients with end-stage renal disease

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 879-881

  Arulkumaran, Nishkantha ^a   Szawarski, Piotr ^a   Philips, Barbara J ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advance care planning; Advance directives; End of life; End stage renal disease

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY ATTITUDE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEAMWORK; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84861179597     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs028     Document Type: Review

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