the majority of patients receiving life-saving treatment reside in the western hemisphere and specifically in the United States. The need for dialysis access placement and maintenance, therefore is a hugely understated enterprise. Here we contextualize the geographic scope of end stage renal disease (...
The authors conclude that although absolute age-specific survival progressively improved, age-specific relative survival worsened compared to the non-ESRD population. Thus, given better improvements in average US life expectancy, a patient with ESRD today loses more life-years than a similar patient ...
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(28 patients) was defined as high self-management and -efficacy, respectively, and the lower three quartiles as low self-management and -efficacy. The logistic regression analysis showed that having depression decreased the odds of having high self-management by 75.4% and high self-efficacy by ...