Rate of Decline of Kidney Function, Modality Choice, and Survival in Elderly Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease

Shahid M. Chandna,Lewis Carpenter,Maria Da Silva Gane,Paul Warwicker,Roger Greenwood,Ken Farrington

Rate of Decline of Kidney Function, Modality Choice, and Survival in Elderly Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease

2016

Shahid M. Chandna
Lewis Carpenter
Maria Da Silva Gane
Paul Warwicker
Roger Greenwood
Ken Farrington

Aim: In elderly, dependent patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, dialysis may confer only a small survival advantage over conservative kidney management

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Dialysis
Renal function
Kidney disease
Nephrology
Intensive care medicine
Medicine
Kidney
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Survival rate
Endocrinology
survival advantage

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