Functional status, pre-dialysis health and clinical outcomes among elderly dialysis patients

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients comprise the fastest growing population initiating dialysis in United States. The impact of poor functional status and pre-dialysis health status on clinical outcomes in elderly dialysis patients is not well studied. METHODS: We studied a retrospective cohort of 49,645 i...

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Autores principales: Shah, Silvi, Leonard, Anthony C., Thakar, Charuhas V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5924501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29703177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-018-0898-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5924501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29703177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-018-0898-1

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