COnsiderations of nephrologists when suggesting dialysis in elderly patients with renal failure (CONSIDER): A discrete choice experiment

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2302-2309

  Foote, Celine ^a,b   Morton, Rachael L ^c,d   Jardine, Meg ^a,b   Gallagher, Martin ^a,e   Brown, Mark ^f,g   Howard, Kirsten ^c   Cass, Alan ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Department of Geriatric Medicine   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Sydney   (Australia)

^f ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dialysis; Discrete choice; Elderly; Nephrologist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT; ELDERLY CARE; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERY ELDERLY; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHROLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84928701275     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfu257     Document Type: Article

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