Predictive value of functional status for mortality in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

American Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-116

  Ifudu, Onyekachi ^a   Paul, Henry R ^a   Homel, Peter ^a   Friedman, Eli A ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

End stage renal disease; Functional status; Hemodialysis; Hispanic; Modified Karnofsky activity scale; Mortality; Serum albumin; Survival

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031949889     PISSN: 02508095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000013318     Document Type: Article

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