The Older Patient With End-Stage Renal Disease: Is Chronic Dialysis The Best Option?

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 602-605

  Steinman, Theodore I ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; HUMAN; NOTE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84870025677     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sdi.12035     Document Type: Note

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