American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 56, Issue 3 , Pages 522-530 , September 2010

Infection-Related Hospitalizations in Older Patients With ESRD

  • Lorien S. Dalrymple, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Lorien S. Dalrymple, MD, MPH, Division of Nephrology, University of California, Davis, 4150 V St, Ste 3500, Sacramento, CA 95817
    • ,
  • Kirsten L. Johansen, MD

      Affiliations

    • San Francisco and Northern California Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, CA
    • US Renal Data System Special Studies Center, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Glenn M. Chertow, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • US Renal Data System Special Studies Center, San Francisco, CA
    • Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
    • ,
  • Su-Chun Cheng, ScD

      Affiliations

    • US Renal Data System Special Studies Center, San Francisco, CA
    • Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Barbara Grimes, PhD

      Affiliations

    • US Renal Data System Special Studies Center, San Francisco, CA
    • Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Ellen B. Gold, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, Sacramento, CA
    • ,
  • George A. Kaysen, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
    • Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, Sacramento, CA
    • Northern California Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mather, Sacramento, CA

Received 12 November 2009 ,Accepted 15 April 2010.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2010.04.016 on July 9, 2010.

PII: S0272-6386(10)00913-3

doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2010.04.016

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 56, Issue 3 , Pages 522-530 , September 2010

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