What drives early dialysis initiation and how do we optimize timing of RRT?

Affiliations

¹ Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
² Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota isha0012@umn.edu.

Editorial

Yelena Slinin et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014.

. 2014 Oct 7;9(10):1671-3.

doi: 10.2215/CJN.08350814. Epub 2014 Sep 23.

¹ Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
² Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota isha0012@umn.edu.

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Keywords: GFR; dialysis; epidemiology; outcomes.

Comment on

Variation in the level of eGFR at dialysis initiation across dialysis facilities and geographic regions.
Sood MM, Manns B, Dart A, Hiebert B, Kappel J, Komenda P, Molzahn A, Naimark D, Nessim S, Rigatto C, Soroka S, Zappitelli M, Tangri N; Canadian Kidney Knowledge Translation and Generation Network (CANN-NET). Sood MM, et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 Oct 7;9(10):1747-56. doi: 10.2215/CJN.12321213. Epub 2014 Sep 23. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014. PMID: 25248743 Free PMC article.

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