Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity

Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity

Background. Incidence of dialysis in elderly patients in the Netherlands is low compared to other countries. This study aims to assess the impact of patients’ age and comorbidity on the likelihood of referral and acceptance of patients for dialysis and whether this is affected by physician character...

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Main Authors: Visser, Annemieke, Dijkstra, Geke J., Huisman, Roel M., Gansevoort, Ron T., de Jong, Paul E., Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421148/
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spelling pubmed-44211482015-05-15 Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity Visser, Annemieke Dijkstra, Geke J. Huisman, Roel M. Gansevoort, Ron T. de Jong, Paul E. Reijneveld, Sijmen A. Original Articles Background. Incidence of dialysis in elderly patients in the Netherlands is low compared to other countries. This study aims to assess the impact of patients’ age and comorbidity on the likelihood of referral and acceptance of patients for dialysis and whether this is affected by physician characteristics. Oxford University Press 2008-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4421148/ /pubmed/25983989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfn116 Text en © The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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author Visser, Annemieke
Dijkstra, Geke J.
Huisman, Roel M.
Gansevoort, Ron T.
de Jong, Paul E.
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
spellingShingle Visser, Annemieke
Dijkstra, Geke J.
Huisman, Roel M.
Gansevoort, Ron T.
de Jong, Paul E.
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
author_facet Visser, Annemieke
Dijkstra, Geke J.
Huisman, Roel M.
Gansevoort, Ron T.
de Jong, Paul E.
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
author_sort Visser, Annemieke
title Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
title_short Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
title_full Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
title_fullStr Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
title_full_unstemmed Differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
title_sort differences between physicians in the likelihood of referral and acceptance of elderly patients for dialysis influence of age and comorbidity
description Background. Incidence of dialysis in elderly patients in the Netherlands is low compared to other countries. This study aims to assess the impact of patients’ age and comorbidity on the likelihood of referral and acceptance of patients for dialysis and whether this is affected by physician characteristics.
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2008
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421148/
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