Urgent Peritoneal Dialysis Starts for ESRD: Initial Multicenter Experiences in the United States

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 500-502

  Wong, Leslie P ^a   Li, Nien Chen ^b   Kansal, Sheru ^a   Lacson, Eduardo ^c   Maddux, Frank ^b   Kessler, Joseph ^b   Curd, Stephanie ^b   Lester, Keith ^b   Herman, Melissa ^b   Pulliam, Joseph ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE NORTH AMERICA   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS CATHETER; PERITONITIS; UNITED STATES; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84970028464     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2016.03.426     Document Type: Letter

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