This is a fellow level lecture. I built it off an old lecture from 2003 or 2004. It is remarkable how much data has emerged since then. Of coarse the IDEAL Trial has put a dagger in the heart of early initiation but the observational data in agreement with abandoning early initiation has also turned.
To fortify this lecture it needs the data on
nursing home residents and dialysis outcomes and I'd like to add the recent data on
dialysis mortality after the week-end.
All-in-all, its a good foundation.