Kidney Failure Treatment: The Freedom to Choose Ezra Gabbay, MD, MS American Journal of Kidney Diseases Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 5-7 (July 2012) DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.04.005 Copyright © 2012 National Kidney Foundation, Inc. Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Relative frequency of citations found by the PubMed search “patient autonomy” or “patient choice” or “patient preference” against the MEDLINE database for different eras. The number of citations is indexed for the number of citations in each period and normalized against the relative frequency in the 1960s (2 of 1,633,645). No citations between 1809 and 1959 included these phrases in fields catalogued by MEDLINE. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2012 60, 5-7DOI: (10.1053/j.ajkd.2012.04.005) Copyright © 2012 National Kidney Foundation, Inc. Terms and Conditions