Improvement in eGFR in patients with chronic kidney disease attending a nephrology clinic

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 841-848

  Taskapan, Hulya ^a   Tam, Paul ^a   Au, Victoria ^a   Chow, Stephen ^a   Fung, Jason ^a   Nagai, Gordon ^a   Roscoe, Janet ^a   Ng, Paul ^a   Sikaneta, Tabo ^a   Ting, Robert ^a   Oreopoulos, Dimitrios G ^b  

^a Toronto General Clinical Hospital   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Early referral; eGFR; Improvement of renal disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAGING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 48549088866     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-008-9360-9     Document Type: Article

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