Low renal replacement therapy incidence among slowly progressing elderly chronic kidney disease patients referred to nephrology care: an observational study
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- 作者：Ulrika Hahn Lundström ; Alessandro Gasparini ; Rino Bellocco…
- 关键词：Renal replacement therapy ; Chronic Kidney Disease ; Estimated glomerular filtration rate ; Mortality ; End ; stage kidney disease ; Progression rate ; Epidemiology
- 刊名：BMC Nephrology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：18
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1105KB
- 刊物主题：Nephrology; Internal Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2369
- 卷排序：18
文摘
BackgroundElderly patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a high risk of death before reaching end-stage kidney disease. In order to allocate resources, such as advanced care nephrology where it is most needed, it is essential to know which patients have the highest absolute risk of advancing to renal replacement therapy (RRT).