Rationing renal replacement therapy to older patients-agreed guidelines are needed
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Rationing renal replacement therapy to older patients--agreed guidelines are needed.
It has been predicted that the requirement for renal conditions such as dementia or complicated diabetes mellitus than their colleagues elsewhere. When asked replacement therapy in the U.K. will increase by 50–100% within 15 years.1 This therapy is an to rank the factors which influenced the above decisions, US nephrologists identified fear of lawsuit expensive resource2 and unlimited access to...
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عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/93.4.253