Provider and care characteristics associated with timing of dialysis initiation

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 310-317

  Slinin, Yelena ^a,b   Guo, Haifeng ^c   Li, Suying ^c   Liu, Jiannong ^c   Morgan, Benjamin ^b   Ensrud, Kristine ^a,b   Gilbertson, David T ^c   Collins, Allan J ^b,c   Ishani, Areef ^b,c  

^a Veterans Administration Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893607557     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04190413     Document Type: Article

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