Starting dialysis early: no survival, quality of life, or cost advantages

Semin Dial. 2012 Sep-Oct;25(5):522-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2012.01117.x. Epub 2012 Jul 24.

Authors

Thida M M Myint¹, Bruce A Cooper, Carol A Pollock, David C H Harris

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Transplantation & Renal Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Medical School, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.

PMID: 22823228
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2012.01117.x

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Contraindications
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Making
Glomerular Filtration Rate*
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic / economics
Kidney Failure, Chronic / mortality*
Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy*
Quality of Life*
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Renal Dialysis / economics*
Renal Dialysis / mortality
Survival Rate
Time Factors