The Danish Registry on Regular Dialysis and Transplantation:completeness and validity of incident patient registration

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 947-951

  Hommel, Kristine ^a,b   Rasmussen, Søren ^b   Madsen, Mette ^c   Kamper, Anne Lise ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Completeness; End stage renal disease; National registry; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DENMARK; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 77649213109     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp571     Document Type: Article

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