Using USRDS generated hospitalization tables to compare local dialysis patient hospitalization rates to national rates

Kidney International

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 571-578

  Strawderman, Robert L ^a   Levine, Gregory ^a   Hirth, Richard A ^a   Port, Friedrich K ^a   Held, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029813205     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.1996.351     Document Type: Article

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