Decisions about Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease in the US Department of Veterans Affairs, 2000-2011

It is not known what proportion of United States patients with advanced CKD go on to receive RRT. In other developed countries, receipt of RRT is highly age dependent and the exception rather than the rule at older ages. We conducted a retrospective study of a national cohort of 28,568 adults who we...

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Published in:	Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2016-10, Vol.11 (10), p.1825-1833
Main Authors:	Wong, Susan P Y, Hebert, Paul L, Laundry, Ryan J, Hammond, Kenric W, Liu, Chuan-Fen, Burrows, Nilka R, O'Hare, Ann M
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adult Age Factors Aged Aged, 80 and over Clinical Decision-Making Female Glomerular Filtration Rate Humans Kidney Failure, Chronic - physiopathology Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy Male Middle Aged Original Patient Participation Renal Dialysis - statistics & numerical data Retrospective Studies United States United States Department of Veterans Affairs - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:	It is not known what proportion of United States patients with advanced CKD go on to receive RRT. In other developed countries, receipt of RRT is highly age dependent and the exception rather than the rule at older ages. We conducted a retrospective study of a national cohort of 28,568 adults who were receiving care within the US Department of Veteran Affairs and had a sustained eGFR
ISSN:	1555-9041 1555-905X