Centre-specific variation in renal transplant outcomes in Canada

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1856-1861

  Kim, S Joseph ^a   Schaubel, Douglas E ^b   Jeffery, John R ^c   Fenton, Stanley S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Centre specific variation; Outcome; Registry; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242687831     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh247     Document Type: Article

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