Factors influencing withdrawal from dialysis: A national registry study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2041-2048

  Findlay, Mark D ^a   Donaldson, Ken ^b   Doyle, Arthur ^c   Fox, Jonathan G ^a   Khan, Izhar ^d   McDonald, Jackie ^e   Metcalfe, Wendy ^f   Peel, Robert K ^g   Shilliday, Ilona ^h   Spalding, Elaine ⁱ   Stewart, Graham A ^j   Traynor, Jamie P ^a   Mackinnon, Bruce ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARGARET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^e INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g RAIGMORE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h MONKLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CROSSHOUSE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^j NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Dialysis withdrawal; Epidemiology; ESRD; Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; PAIN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SCOTLAND; SEPSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 85018979598     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfw074     Document Type: Article

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