Regional and social inequalities in chronic renal replacement therapy in Denmark

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2624-2632

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

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

demographic factors; diabetic end stage renal disease; regional differences; renal replacement therapy; socio economic factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DENMARK; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954765638     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq110     Document Type: Article

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