Establishment of a renal supportive care program: Experience from a rural community hospital in Taiwan

Establishment of a renal supportive care program: Experience from a rural community hospital in Taiwan

Renal supportive care (RSC) denotes a care program dedicated for patients with acute, chronic renal failure, and end-stage renal disease (ESRD), aiming to offer maximal symptom relief and optimize patients' quality of life. The uncertainty of prognosis for patients with chronic kidney disease a...

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Main Authors: Chia-Ter Chao, Hung-Bin Tsai, Chih-Yuan Shih, Su-Hsuan Hsu, Yu-Chien Hung, Chun-Fu Lai, Ruey-Hsiuang Ueng, Ding-Cheng Chan, Juey-Jen Hwang, Sheng-Jean Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-07-01
Series:Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Subjects:
chronic kidney disease
end-stage renal disease
hospice
palliative care
renal supportive care
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664615004167

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