Dialysis and mortality: Does it matter where you live?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1055-1057

  Rodriguez, Rudolph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863737248     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.05410512     Document Type: Editorial

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