Survival and dialysis initiation: Comparing British Columbia and Scotland registries

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3186-3192

  Sawhney, Simon ^a   Djurdjev, Ognjenka ^b   Simpson, Keith ^c   MacLeod, Alison ^a   Levin, Adeera ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Scottish Renal Registry ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Dialysis initiation; EGFR; Incident patients; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIALYSIS; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349484976     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp189     Document Type: Article

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