Renal replacement therapy: can we separate the effects of social deprivation and ethnicity?

Kidney International Supplements

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 246-249

  Caskey, Fergus J ^a,b  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dialysis; equity of access; ethnicity; social deprivation; socioeconomic status; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MENTAL CAPACITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84920197700     PISSN: 21571724     EISSN: 21571716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/kisup.2013.24     Document Type: Article

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