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Dialysis decisions concerning cognitively impaired adults: a scoping literature review

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is a significant cause of global deaths. Those who progress to end-stage kidney disease often commence dialysis as a life-extending treatment. For cognitively impaired patients, the decision as to whether they commence dialysis will fall to someone else. This scopi...

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Autores principales: Parsons, Jordan A., Ives, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7932834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33663482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00591-w