Supportive care in advanced chronic kidney disease: Withholding and withdrawing dialysis therapy
Over the latest few decades, dialysis has been offered to older and more complex patients. This treatment can increase the symptom burden and also add new symptoms that can have a profound impact in frail and/or elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. A quality of life approach may be more des...
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| Language: | eng |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0872-01692018000200007 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:scielo:S0872-01692018000200007 |