Acute kidney injury risk factor recognition in three teaching hospitals in Ethiopia

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 413-418

  Phillips, L ^a   Allen, N ^a   Phillips, B ^a   Abera, A ^b   Diro, E ^b   Riley, S ^a   Tadesse, Y ^c   Williams, J ^a   Phillips, A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^c TIKUR ANBESSA HOSPITAL   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNITY WARD; MONITORING; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRESCRIPTION; RECOGNITION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL WARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84878363649     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.6424     Document Type: Article

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