Association of race and age with survival among patients undergoing dialysis

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 620-626

  Kucirka, Lauren M ^a   Grams, Morgan E ^a,b   Lessler, Justin ^b   Hall, Erin Carlyle ^a   James, Nathan ^a   Massie, Allan B ^a   Montgomery, Robert A ^a   Segev, Dorry L ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051564115     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1127     Document Type: Article

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