Decisions about renal replacement therapy in patients with advanced kidney disease in the US department of veterans affairs, 2000–2011

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1825-1833

  Wong, Susan P Y ^a   Hebert, Paul L ^b,d   Laundry, Ryan J ^d   Hammond, Kenric W ^a,c   Liu, Chuan Fen ^b,d   Burrows, Nilka R ^e   O’Hare, Ann M ^a,d  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Clinical epidemiology; Comorbidity; Developed countries; Dialysis; Electronic health records; End stage renal disease; Follow up studies; Glomerular filtration rate; Humans; Kidney; Medicare; Renal dialysis; Renal insufficiency, chronic; Renal replacement therapy; Retrospective studies; United States; Veterans

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAGNE COMORBIDITY SCORE; GOVERNMENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RACE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VETERANS HEALTH; ADULT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 85020525871     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03760416     Document Type: Review

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