Predicting early death among elderly dialysis patients: Development and validation of a risk score to assist shared decision making for dialysis initiation

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1024-1032

  Thamer, Mae ^a   Kaufman, James S ^b   Zhang, Yi ^a   Zhang, Qian ^a   Cotter, Dennis J ^a   Bang, Heejung ^c  

^a Med Technol Pract Patterns Inst   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choosing Wisely; chronic kidney failure; conservative care; dialysis initiation; End stage renal disease (ESRD); mortality; predictive model; quality of life; risk score; shared decision making; treatment decisions

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHARED DECISION MAKING; TREATMENT DURATION; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948071112     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.05.014     Document Type: Article

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