The cockroft and gault formula for estimation of creatinine clearance: A friendly deconstruction

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 1350, 2012, Pages

  Alasdair Millar, J ^a  

^a SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; COCKROFT AND GAULT FORMULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DERIVATIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ARTICLE; HISTORY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CREATININE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 84857559045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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