Use of Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy Dialysis Tables to Compare the Local and National Incidence of Dialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-67

  Wakasugi, Minako ^a   Kazama, Junichiro James ^b   Narita, Ichiei ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Confidence intervals; Dialysis; Incidence; Methodology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855927242     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2011.01030.x     Document Type: Article

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