Observational studies: The hazard and other gods;Estudios observacionales: el azar y otros dioses

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 80-84

  Arenas Fernández, Jorge ^a   Fernández Martín, José Luis ^b   Cannata Andía, Jorge B ^b   Martínez Camblor, Pablo ^a,b  

^a Oficina de Investigación Biosanitaria OIB de Asturias and Universidad Autonoma de Chile   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY;

AGED; CAUSALITY; CHELATING AGENTS; CHELATION THERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, SECONDARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; PHOSPHORUS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84892374574     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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