Vascular access creation before hemodialysis initiation and use: A population-based cohort study

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 418-427

  Al Jaishi, Ahmed A ^a   Lok, Charmaine E ^b   Garg, Amit X ^c   Zhang, Joyce C ^d   Moist, Louise M ^e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; VASCULAR ACCESS; VERY ELDERLY; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEPHROLOGY; ONTARIO; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; ONTARIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924415302     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.06220614     Document Type: Article

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