Death Risk in Hemodialysis Patients: The Predictive Value of Commonly Measured Variables and an Evaluation of Death Rate Differences Between Facilities

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 458-482

  Lowrie, Edmund G ^a   Lew, Nancy L ^a  

^a National Medical Care Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

albumin; Hemodialysis; mortality; nutrition; relative risk

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FATALITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY;

EID: 0025300351     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-6386(12)70364-5     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Proceedings from the Morbidity, Mortality and Prescription of Dialysis Symposium, Dallas, TX, September 15 to 17, 1989
2. The Logist Procedure
3. Treatment of chronic renal failure at the Northwest Kidney Center, Seattle, from 1960 to 1982
4. Risk factors in hemodialysis patient survival
5. The medicare experience with end stage renal disease: Trends in incidence, prevalence, and survival
6. Assessment of nutritional status of the National Cooperative Dialysis Study population
7. Mortality risk factors in patients treated by chronic hemodialysis: Report of the Daiphane Collaborative Study
8. Malnutrition as the main factor in morbidity and mortality of hemodialysis patients
9. Malnutritim, altered immunologic function, and the risk of infection in maintenance hemodialysis patients
10. Nutritional status in lymphocyte function in maintenance hemodialysis patients
11. Modeling success or failure of dialysis therapy
12. Comparison of the study groups
13. Mortality rates among dialysis patients in Medicare's end-stage renal disease program
14. General discussion and summary