Chronic kidney disease - New approaches to classification

Hospital Pharmacist

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 406-410

  Devaney, Andrea ^a,b   Tomson, Charlie ^c  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UK Renal Pharmacy Group   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE CALCULATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; URINALYSIS;

EID: 33845707791     PISSN: 13527967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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