Tough Choices: Dialysis, Palliative Care, or a Third Option for Elderly ESRD

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 633-639

  Williams, Mark E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

AGED; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PALLIATIVE CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84870058882     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sdi.12018     Document Type: Article

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