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COMPARISON OF RENAL CARE PRACTICE IN EUROPE: CENTRE AND PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS
Author(s) -
Elseviers M.,
Vos J.Y.,
Harrington M.,
Zampieron A.,
Ormandy P.,
Kafkia T.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
edtna‐erca journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1755-6686
pISSN - 1019-083X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2006.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - clinical practice , dialysis , medicine , political science , family medicine , business , surgery
SUMMARY The European Practice Database (EPD) contains data from 8 countries including 276 centres and 21,861 dialysis patients. Comparing patients and centre characteristics, remarkable similarities and pronounced differences in renal practice between different European countries and between centres within each country were found.