Infrequent Provision of Palliative Care to Patients with Dialysis-Requiring AKI.

CONCLUSIONS: The provision of palliative care varied widely by patient and facility characteristics. Palliative care was infrequently used in hospitalized patients with AKI requiring dialysis, despite its poor prognosis and the regular application of life-sustaining therapy.
PMID: 29042462 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - October 17, 2017 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Chong K, Silver SA, Long J, Zheng Y, Pankratz VS, Unruh ML, Chertow GM Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research