Agreement between equations estimating glomerular filtration rate in elderly nursing home residents and in hospitalised patients: Implications for drug dosing

Age and Ageing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 583-589

  Corsonello, Andrea ^a   Pedone, Claudio ^b,c   Lattanzio, Fabrizia ^a   Semeraro, Roberto ^d   D'Andria, Francesco ^d   Gigante, Maurizio ^d   Coppola, Anna ^d   Cadeddu, Giancarlo ^a   Laino, Irma ^a   Incalzi, Raffaele Antonelli ^b,d  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c Alberto Sordi Foundation   (Italy)

^d San Raffaele Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drugs; Elderly; Glomerular filtration rate; Hospital; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE COLLABORATION EQUATION; COCKCROFT GAULT EQUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG DOSE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODIFICATION OF DIET IN RENAL DISEASE EQUATION; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CREATININE; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NURSING HOMES; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 80051713733     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr011     Document Type: Article

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