CORE CURRICULUM IN NEPHROLOGY Palliative Care

Abstract

● 1-year unadjusted, all incident patients: 78%. ● 5-year unadjusted, all incident patients: 33%. ● 10-year unadjusted, all incident patients: 9%. ● Survival comparable or worse than patients with many types of cancer. ● Increasing number of incident patients with worse survival (median age, 64.5 years for incident patients in US Renal Data System [USRDS] Annual Data Report 2003). ● Younger patients without comorbidities may survive for 30 years with dialysis.