Conservative management and End-Of-Life care in an australian cohort with ESRD

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2195-2203

  Morton, Rachael L ^a   Webster, Angela C ^b   McGeechan, Kevin ^b   Howard, Kirsten ^b   Murtagh, Fliss E M ^c   Gray, Nicholas A ^d   Kerr, Peter G ^e   Germain, Michael J ^f   Snelling, Paul ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^f BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advance directives; Australia; Cohort Studies; Death; Follow Up Studies; Hospices; Humans; Kidney failure, chronic; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Palliative Care; Palliative medicine; Renal dialysis; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic; Renal Replacement Therapy; Serum Albumin; Terminal Care

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEATH; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ESTIMATED GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS CATHETER; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT DURATION; UREMIA; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; BLOOD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPLICATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LIVING WILL; METABOLISM; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 85021760296     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.11861115     Document Type: Article

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