Treated and untreated kidney failure in older adults: What's the right balance?

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2545-2546

  Kurella Tamura, Manjula ^a,b   Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84862490134     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.6667     Document Type: Editorial

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