Willingness to Participate in a Randomized Trial Comparing Catheters to Fistulas for Vascular Access in Incident Hemodialysis Patients: An International Survey of Nephrologists

Willingness to Participate in a Randomized Trial Comparing Catheters to Fistulas for Vascular Access in Incident Hemodialysis Patients: An International Survey of Nephrologists

Background: Current guidelines favor fistulas over catheters as vascular access. Yet, the observational literature comparing fistulas to catheters has important limitations and biases that may be difficult to overcome in the absence of randomization. However, it is not clear if physicians would be w...

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Main Authors: Krishna Poinen, Matthew J. Oliver, Pietro Ravani, Sabine N. Van der Veer, Kitty J. Jager, Wim Van Biesen, Kevan R. Polkinghorne, Aviva Rosenfeld, Adriane M. Lewin, Mandeep Dulai, Robert R. Quinn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-07-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40697-016-0125-6

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40697-016-0125-6

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