Analyses of factors concerning the short-term outcome of elderly patients beginning dialysis

Japanese Journal of Geriatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 368-374

  Fujimaki, Hiroshi ^a   Kasuya, Yutaka ^b   Kagami, Shino ^c   Kawaguchi, Sachiko ^c   Koga, Shiro ^b   Takahashi, Tadao ^d   Mizuno, Shoichi ^e  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo Metropolitan Hospitals Association Patient Safety Management   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Public Health Office   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Elderly; Initiation of dialysis; Multivariate logistic regression analysis; Short term outcome

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041381391     PISSN: 03009173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3143/geriatrics.40.368     Document Type: Article

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