Care of undocumented-uninsured immigrants in a large urban dialysis unit

BMC Nephrology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chernin, Gil ^a   Gal Oz, Amir ^a   Schwartz, Idit F ^a   Shashar, Moshe ^a   Schwartz, Doron ^a   Weinstein, Talia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dialysis; ESRD; Immigrants; Undocumented; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TUNNELED CUFFED CATHETER; UREMIA; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; PREVALENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84875339213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2369-13-112     Document Type: Article

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