Quality of care and survival of haemodialysed patients in western Switzerland

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1975-1981

  Saudan, Patrick ^a,c   Kossovsky, Michel ^a   Halabi, George ^b   Martin, Pierre Y ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Co morbidity score; End stage renal failure; Haemodialysis; Quality of care; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44449165006     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm915     Document Type: Article

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