Which index is optimal for assessment of baseline comorbidities in kidney transplant recipients?

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-75

  Oniscu, Gabriel C ^a   Forsythe, John L R ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charlson Comorbidity Index; Davies index; Khan scoring system; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33644823833     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0096     Document Type: Note

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