Emergent dialysis and its impact on quality of life in undocumented patients with end-stage renal disease

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 39-44

  Hogan, Andrew N ^a   Fox, William R ^b   Roppolo, Lynn P ^b   Suter, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic therapy; Emigrants; Immigrants; Kidney Failure; Kidney Failure, Chronic ethnology; Quality of Life; Renal Dialysis; Undocumented Immigrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE QUALITY OF LIFE SHORT FORM 36; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; AWARENESS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEXAS; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, COUNTY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXAS; UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013499531     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18865/ed.27.1.39     Document Type: Article

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