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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 504-513 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 4 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Arteriovenous fistula
- Arteriovenous graft
- Dialysis access
- End-stage renal disease
- Hemodialysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nephrology