Population
160 maintenance hemodialysis patients from 3 university teaching hospitals and 3 local dialysis units in Korea
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Screening for depression may warrant consideration in older hemodialysis patients; leaves open whether interventions improve quality of life.
Moderate to severe depression is common among maintenance hemodialysis patients and is inversely related to health-related quality of life, with several potentially modifiable risk factors identified.
Park et al. (2010) studied this question.
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