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: Yi-Ting Lin, Ping-Hsun Wu, Mei-Chuan Kuo, Ming-Yen Lin, Tzu-Chi Lee, Yi-Wen Chiu, Shang-Jyh Hwang, Hung-Chun Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3767633?pdf=render