Association between prevalent care process measures and facility-specific mortality rates

Kidney International

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1917-1929

  Lowrie, Edmund G ^a   Teng, Ming ^a   Lacson, Eduardo ^a   Lew, Nancy ^a   Lazarus, J Michael ^a   Owen, William F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis; HCFA Core Indicators; Hemodialysis; Practice guidelines; Quality of care; Statistical evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034773693     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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