Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the mortality of dialysis patients

Kidney International

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 760-766

  Kutner, Nancy G ^a,f   Muntner, Paul ^b   Huang, Yijian ^a   Zhang, Rebecca ^a   Cohen, Andrew J ^c   Anderson, Amanda H ^d   Eggers, Paul W ^e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Disaster; Mortality; USRDS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISASTER; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HURRICANE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

COHORT STUDIES; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; NEW ORLEANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70349210075     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.268     Document Type: Article

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