Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced CKD: Moving Beyond the Status Quo

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology and Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
² Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.

Editorial

Emily Lu et al. Kidney Med. 2019.

. 2019 Nov 1;1(6):335-337.

doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2019.09.003. eCollection 2019 Nov-Dec.

¹ Division of Nephrology and Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
² Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.

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