Nephrologist follow-up improves all-cause mortality of severe acute kidney injury survivors

Kidney International

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 901-908

  Harel, Ziv ^a,b,c   Wald, Ron ^a,c   Bargman, Joanne M ^a   Mamdani, Muhammad ^b,c,d   Etchells, Edward ^b,d   Garg, Amit X ^d,e   Ray, Joel G ^b,c,d   Luo, Jin ^d   Li, Ping ^d   Quinn, Robert R ^f   Forster, Alan ^d,g   Perl, Jeff ^a,c   Bell, Chaim M ^b,c,d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

acute renal failure; clinical nephrology; epidemiology and outcomes

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84877051507     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2012.451     Document Type: Article

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