Assessment of a five-year survival on hemodialysis in Brazil: a cohort of 3,082 incident patients
Brazil has the third largest contingent of patients on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) worldwide. However, little is known regarding survival rate and predictors of mortality risk in that population, which are the purposes of this study. A total of 3,082 patients incident on HD, from 2000 to 2004, at...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Nephrology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-28002011000400008&lng=en&tlng=en |