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. 2020 Sep;31(9):1928-1930.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2020050729. Epub 2020 Aug 3.

Increasing Peritoneal Dialysis Use in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will It Go Viral?

Edwina A Brown  1 , Jeffrey Perl  2
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Increasing Peritoneal Dialysis Use in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will It Go Viral?

Edwina A Brown et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; home dialysis; peritoneal dialysis.

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Selected strategies to increase PD use after the COVID-19 pandemic. Image for PD modified from reference , with permission.
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