End-stage renal disease: A new comorbidity index for estimating mortality risk in ESRD

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 391-393

  Lindholm, Bengt ^a   Davies, Simon ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954220519     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2010.81     Document Type: Short Survey

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