Health status as a potential mediator of the association between hemodialysis vascular access and mortality

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 892-898

  Grubbs, Vanessa ^a   Wasse, Haimanot ^b,c   Vittinghoff, Eric ^d   Grimes, Barbara A ^d   Johansen, Kirsten L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; hemodialysis; mortality; vascular access

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS GRAFT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CATHETER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; VASCULAR ACCESS; VERY ELDERLY;

ELDERLY; HEMODIALYSIS; MORTALITY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897400820     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft438     Document Type: Article

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