Survival of elderly dialysis patients is predicted by both patient and practice characteristics

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3581-3587

  Foote, Celine ^a   Ninomiya, Toshiharu ^a   Gallagher, Martin ^a,b   Perkovic, Vlado ^a   Cass, Alan ^a,c   McDonald, Stephen P ^d,e   Jardine, Meg ^a,b  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Renal Medicine   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

dialysis; elderly; survival

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL PREDICTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENTS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84865791589     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs096     Document Type: Article

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