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Geographic and facility variation in initial use of non-tunneled catheters for incident maintenance hemodialysis patients

BACKGROUND: Non-tunneled (temporary) hemodialysis catheters (NTHCs) are the least-optimal initial vascular access for incident maintenance hemodialysis patients yet little is known about factors associated with NTHC use in this context. We sought to determine factors associated with NTHC use and exa...

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Autores principales: Clark, Edward G., Akbari, Ayub, Hiebert, Brett, Hiremath, Swapnil, Komenda, Paul, Lok, Charmaine E., Moist, Louise M., Schachter, Michael E., Tangri, Navdeep, Sood, Manish M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26920700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-016-0236-4