Patient education for hyperphosphatemia management: Improving outcomes while decreasing costs?
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Patient education for hyperphosphatemia management: Improving outcomes while decreasing costs?
modialysis patients, behavioral changes associated with the management of hyperphosphatemia, such as the adoption of a low phosphate diet and judicious intake of phosphate binders, are probably the most complicated and challenging [1,2]. Non-adherence to low phosphate diets, which are likely the most common dietary restrictions required from this patient population, ranges between 19 and 57% [3...
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عنوان ژورنال: Kidney Research and Clinical Practice
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2211-9140
DOI: 10.23876/j.krcp.2018.37.1.4