'Beats the alternative but it messes up your life': Aboriginal people's experience of haemodialysis in rural Australia

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Rix, Elizabeth F ^a   Barclay, Lesley ^a   Stirling, Janelle ^a   Tong, Allison ^b   Wilson, Shawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL VALUE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FAMILY CENTERED CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL AREA; SHOCK; SNOWBALL SAMPLE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84907209521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005945     Document Type: Article

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