Practice Change Is Needed for Dialysis Decision Making with Older Adults with Advanced Kidney Disease

Jennifer S Scherer; Alvin H Moss

doi:10.2215/CJN.08770816

Practice Change Is Needed for Dialysis Decision Making with Older Adults with Advanced Kidney Disease

Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Oct 7;11(10):1732-1734. doi: 10.2215/CJN.08770816. Epub 2016 Sep 22.

Authors

Jennifer S Scherer^{1

2}, Alvin H Moss^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Divisions of Palliative Care and.
² Nephrology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; and.
³ Sections of Nephrology and.
⁴ Supportive Care, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Decision Making; chronic dialysis; conservative care; fluid therapy; humans; kidney; kidney diseases; older patients; renal dialysis; shared decision-making; supportive care.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Decision Making
Humans
Kidney
Kidney Diseases*
Kidney Failure, Chronic
Renal Dialysis*