Survival of Elderly Adults Undergoing Incident Home Hemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2003-2010

  Molnar, Miklos Z ^a   Ravel, Vanessa ^b   Streja, Elani ^b   Kovesdy, Csaba P ^a,c   Rivara, Matthew B ^d   Mehrotra, Rajnish ^d   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; home hemodialysis; kidney transplantation; mortality; survival

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOME DIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEMODIALYSIS, HOME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992073949     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14321     Document Type: Article

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