Hemodialysis Access Choice: Impact of Health Literacy

• Main Authors: Andrea Mazarova (Author), Swapnil Hiremath (Author), Manish M. Sood (Author), Edward G. Clark (Author), Pierre Antoine Brown (Author), Ann L. Bugeja (Author), Grant L. England (Author), Deborah Zimmerman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SLACK Incorporated, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Hemodialysis patients need to make decisions about vascular access and diet that they may not fully understand. In this study, we hypothesized that patients with low health literacy are likely to choose a central venous catheter (CVC) and have higher serum potassium (K), serum phosphate...