Understanding Dialysis Patient Perspectives on Advocacy
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Understanding Dialysis Patient Perspectives on Advocacy.
Iapplaud the study by Schober et al in this issue of AJKD, which focuses on patients treated with dialysis to assess their attitudes and overall potential to engage in advocacy related to chronic kidney disease (CKD). As the study states, even though more than 25 million Americans live with CKD and more than 400,000 require maintenance dialysis therapy for kidney failure, funding for CKD resear...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Kidney Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0272-6386
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2016.10.002