title: Dialysis in 2012: Could longer and more frequent haemodialysis improve outcomes?
abstract: Patients with end-stage renal disease typically receive three 3–4 h haemodialysis sessions per week. Although available data from well-powered randomized trials are limited, studies published in 2012 provided new evidence that haemodialysis regimens with longer treatment times and/or a higher frequency of sessions might reduce the high morbidity and mortality of patients on maintenance dialysis.
authors.affiliation: Harborview Medical Center and Kidney Research Institute, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. rmehrotr@uw.edu
authors.forename: Rajnish
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mehrotra
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Himmelfarb
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000592:standards; D016896:Treatment Outcome