| Literature DB >> 16941043 |
Rick Hayashi1, Edmund Huang, Allen R Nissenson.
Abstract
Establishing and maintaining adequate vascular access is essential to providing an appropriate dialysis dose in patients with end-stage renal disease. Complications related to vascular access have a significant role in dialysis-related morbidity and mortality. The National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) clinical practice guideline for dialysis access was last updated in 2000 and provides a framework for the optimal establishment and maintenance of dialysis access, and treatment of complications related to dialysis access. This paper reviews the 2000 K/DOQI dialysis access guideline as well as updated information published subsequently.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16941043 DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0239
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Clin Pract Nephrol ISSN: 1745-8323