Association of dialyzer reuse with hospitalization and survival rates among U.S. hemodialysis patients: Do comorbidities matter?

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-217

  Feldman, Harold I ^a,c   Bilker, Warren B ^a   Hackett, Monica H ^a,c   Simmons, Christopher W ^a   Holmes, John H ^a   Pauly, Mark V ^b,c   Escarce, José J ^d  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Case mix adjustment; Comorbidity; Dialyzer reuse; End stage renal disease; Follow up study; Health services research; Hemodialysis; Hospitalization; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; CASE MIX; COMORBIDITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EQUIPMENT REUSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033017446     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00162-0     Document Type: Article

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