Abstract
Each year, as part of its Quality Improvement and information sharing activities, National Medical Care (NMC) evaluates possible factors contributing to death risk among patients treated in its affiliated centers focusing on data gathered during the preceding year. We hope in this way to detect clinically relevant risk trends as they respond to changing clinical practice. The purpose of this article is to summarize data collected during 1991 and compare them with past analyses of similar sort.
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This article has been abstracted from a technical memorandum to NMC Medical Directors dated February 26, 1993.
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Lowrie, E.G., Huang, W.H., Lew, N.L., Liu, Y. (1994). The relative contribution of measured variables to death risk among hemodialysis patients. In: Friedman, E.A. (eds) Death on Hemodialysis: Preventable or Inevitable?. Developments in Nephrology, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0806-5_13
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