Predicting older dialysis patients' prognoses

Adults age 65 years and older represent half of the patients initiating chronic dialysis in the United States.Simple measures of the severity of an older kidney failure patient's illness when starting dialysis - such as whether dialysis was initiated in an inpatient setting, the length of the patient's hospital stay, and the use of other life-sustaining procedures - can convey meaningful information about the patient's prognosis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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