Decisions about Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease in the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 2000–2011
Author(s) -
Susan Wong,
Paul L. Hebert,
Ryan J. Laundry,
Kenric W. Hammond,
ChuanFen Liu,
Nilka Rı́os Burrows,
Ann M. O’Hare
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.03760416
Subject(s) - medicine , veterans affairs , dialysis , confidence interval , renal replacement therapy , cohort , retrospective cohort study , millennium cohort study (united states) , kidney disease , cohort study , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pediatrics
It is not known what proportion of United States patients with advanced CKD go on to receive RRT. In other developed countries, receipt of RRT is highly age dependent and the exception rather than the rule at older ages.
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