High prevalence of unlabeled chronic kidney disease among inpatients at a tertiary-care hospital

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-97

  Ferris, Maria ^a   Shoham, David A ^c   Pierre Louis, Margareth ^a   Mandhelker, Lawrence ^b   Detwiler, Randal K ^a   Kshirsagar, Abhijit V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Unrecognized

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BLOOD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CREATININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CREATININE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INPATIENTS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849099339     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318181288e     Document Type: Article

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