The rise of prevalence and the fall of mortality of patients with acute renal failure: What the analysis of two databases does and does not tell us

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 923-925

  Lameire, Norbert ^a   Van Biesen, Wim ^a   Vanholder, Raymond ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33645469327     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2006020152     Document Type: Editorial

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