Early dialysis initiation and rates and timing of withdrawal from dialysis in Canada

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 265-270

  Ellwood, Amanda D ^a   Vanita Jassal, S ^b   Suri, Rita S ^a   Clark, William F ^a   Na, Yingo ^c   Moist, Louise M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Canadian Institute of Health Information   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CANADA; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84875044363     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01000112     Document Type: Article

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