Underdiagnosis of chronic kidney disease in the nursing home population

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1123-1124

  Cohen, Jeffrey T ^a   Jasimuddin, Sheikh K ^b   Tommasulo, Barbara C ^b   Shapiro, Edan Y ^c   Singavarapu, Avinash ^c   Vernatter, Joshua ^c   Hussain, Roshan ^d   Cal, Charles ^b   Dlugacz, Yosef ^d   Mattana, Joseph ^a   Wolf Klein, Gisele ^a,e  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation ^*  (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Krasnoff Quality Management Institute   (United States)

^e Bette and Jerome Lorber Center for the Advancement of Medical Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NURSING HOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 66549087985     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02289.x     Document Type: Letter

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