What do American nephrologists think about dialysis modality selection?

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 22-29

  Mendelssohn, David C ^a,b,c   Mullaney, Scott R ^a,b,c   Jung, Beverley ^a,b,c   Blake, Peter G ^a,b,c   Mehta, Ravindra L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Hemodialysis (HD); Modality selection; Peritoneal dialysis (PD); Survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REIMBURSEMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047696576     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ajkd.2001.20635     Document Type: Article

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