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Problems Associated With Hemodialysis and Travel

Author(s) -

Richard Corbett,

Virginia Prout,

Deborah K. Haynes,

Claire Edwards,

Andrew Frankel

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of travel medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.985

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1708-8305

pISSN - 1195-1982

DOI - 10.1111/jtm.12121

Subject(s) - medicine , hemodialysis , dialysis , incidence (geometry) , population , intensive care medicine , home hemodialysis , travel medicine , emergency medicine , environmental health , physics , optics , psychiatry

While there is a recognized risk of hepatitis C acquisition associated with dialysis away from the "home" center, there is little documented data on the effect that dialysis while traveling has on the dialysis patient's health. This study was designed to examine the incidence of travel within a hemodialysis population and to ascertain whether travel was associated with morbidity for patients on hemodialysis.

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