A simple clinical tool to inform the decision-making process to refer elderly incident dialysis patients for kidney transplant evaluation

Kidney International

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 121-129

  Dusseux, Emmanuelle ^a   Albano, Laetitia ^a   Fafin, Coraline ^a   Hourmant, Maryvonne ^b   Guérin, Olivier ^a   Couchoud, Cécile ^c   Moranne, Olivier ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NICE   (France)

^b NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c AGENCE DE LA BIOMÉDECINE   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Chronic dialysis; Elderly; Epidemiology and outcomes; ESKD; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MENTAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84934444892     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2015.25     Document Type: Article

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