The extent of informed decision-making about starting dialysis: does patients’ age matter?

Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 571-576

  Song, Mi Kyung ^a   Ward, Sandra E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Dialysis; End stage renal disease; Informed decision making; Patient provider communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ETHNICITY; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERCEPTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SHORT PORTABLE MENTAL STATUS QUESTIONNAIRE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920364132     PISSN: 11218428     EISSN: 17246059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40620-014-0061-4     Document Type: Article

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