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An instrumental variable approach finds no associated harm or benefit from early dialysis initiation in the United States

The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) at dialysis initiation has been rising. Observational studies suggest harm, but may be confounded by unmeasured factors. As instrumental variable methods may be less biased we performed a retrospective cohort study of 310,932 patients starting dialysis...

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Autores principales: Scialla, Julia J., Liu, Jiannong, Crews, Deidra C., Guo, Haifeng, Bandeen-Roche, Karen, Ephraim, Patti L., Tangri, Navdeep, Sozio, Stephen M., Shafi, Tariq, Miskulin, Dana C., Michels, Wieneke M., Jaar, Bernard G., Wu, Albert W., Powe, Neil R., Boulware, L. Ebony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24786707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ki.2014.110