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...
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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3767633?pdf=render |
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