Modeling survival of arteriovenous accesses for hemodialysis: Semiparametric versus parametric methods

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1243-1248

  Ravani, Pietro ^a   Parfrey, Patrick ^b   MacRae, Jennifer ^a   James, Matthew ^a   Quinn, Robert ^a   Malberti, Fabio ^c   Brunori, Giuliano ^d   Mandolfo, Salvatore ^e   Tonelli, Marcello ^f   Hemmelgarn, Brenda ^a   Manns, Braden ^a   Barrett, Brendan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c CREMONA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^e Azienda Ospedaliera di Lodi   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; VASCULAR ACCESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CANADA; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954804107     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.06190809     Document Type: Article

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