High Mortality Rate of Infectious Diseases in Dialysis Patients: A Comparison With the General Population in Japan

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 226-231

  Wakasugi, Minako ^a   Kawamura, Kazuko ^a   Yamamoto, Suguru ^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

Dialysis; Epidemiology; Infection; Population; Sepsis; Standardized mortality ratio

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84861332093     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2012.01062.x     Document Type: Article

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