What influences patient choice of treatment modality at the pre-dialysis stage?
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What influences patient choice of treatment modality at the pre-dialysis stage?
BACKGROUND There is little information on factors influencing patient choice of renal replacement modality (RRM) in the UK. Pre-dialysis education programmes have been associated with increased uptake of peritoneal dialysis (PD) in other countries but their relevance in informing patient choice within UK centres has not been extensively studied. In this study, we examined how patient choice of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr452