The ethics of offering dialysis for AKI to the older patient: Time to re-evaluate?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1652-1656

  Akbar, Sana ^a   Moss, Alvin H ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DIALYSIS; DIALYSIS CATHETER; DISEASE COURSE; ELDERLY CARE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; BIOETHICS; ETHICS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; HUMANS; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84923330895     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.01630214     Document Type: Article

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