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Fifteen years ago we were faced with problems of whom to take on hemodialysis and whom to exclude. Federal support and available services make this selection less of a quandary today. Now, however, with patients living longer on dialysis and starting dialysis at more and more advanced ages and with more complex illnesses (diabetes, hypertension, lupus erythematosus, coronary heart disease, and so on), another quandary arises: the dilemma of when and how to take patients off dialysis, allowing them to die.
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Reichsman, F., and Levy, N. B. Problems in adaptation to maintenance hemodialysis: A 4-year study of 25 patients. Archives of Internal Medicine, 1972, 130, 359–365.
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Greene, W.A. (1983). Problems in Discontinuation of Hemodialysis. In: Levy, N.B., Mattern, W., Freedman, A.M. (eds) Psychonephrology 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6669-8_11
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