One-Third of Patients in a National Cohort Initiating Hemodialysis With a Catheter Despite 6 Months of Nephrology Care

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
² Division of Vascular and Endovascular Therapy, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland.

Comment

Devin S Zarkowsky et al. JAMA Surg. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 1;151(7):687.

doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.5559.

¹ Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
² Division of Vascular and Endovascular Therapy, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland.

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