High Cost and Low Survival Rate in High Comorbidity Incident Elderly Hemodialysis Patients

BACKGROUND: The comorbidity index is a predictor of mortality in dialysis patients but there are few reports for predicting elderly dialysis mortality and national population-based cost studies on elderly dialysis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term mortality of incident elderly dia...

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Main Authors: Lin, Yi-Ting, Wu, Ping-Hsun, Kuo, Mei-Chuan, Lin, Ming-Yen, Lee, Tzu-Chi, Chiu, Yi-Wen, Hwang, Shang-Jyh, Chen, Hung-Chun
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767633/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24040407
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075318
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