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Challenges with Providing Hospice Care for Patients Undergoing Long-Term Dialysis
- Source :
- Clin J Am Soc Nephrol
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Older patients comprise the fastest growing population initiating dialysis. Many have coexisting conditions that affect their experience and survival. These patients spend their last days undergoing intensive therapies at a higher rate than with other life-limiting conditions. The majority of
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Population
030232 urology & nephrology
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Medicare
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Affect (psychology)
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Older patients
Renal Dialysis
medicine
Humans
Intensive care medicine
education
Hospice care
Transplantation
education.field_of_study
Long term dialysis
business.industry
Long-Term Care
United States
Hospice Care
Nephrology
business
Dialysis (biochemistry)
Perspectives
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1555905X and 15559041
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f96660eac43d66b4eef7f34eaa400e62
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.10710720