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| Eric D WeinhandlSummaryAffiliation: Chronic Disease Research Group Country: USA Publications
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Hemoglobin variability and mortality: confounding by disease severityEric D Weinhandl
Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, MN, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 57:255-65. 2011..Adequate adjustment for confounding by disease severity is needed to estimate the association of hemoglobin level variability with mortality risk...
Hemoglobin level variability: associations with mortalityDavid T Gilbertson
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, 914 South 8th Street, Suite S 206, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 3:133-8. 2008..4%; intermediate-intermediate (I-I), 6.0%; high-high (H-H), 2.3%; low-intermediate (L-I), 18.3%; intermediate-high (I-H), 31.7%, and low-high (L-H), 40.2%...
Survival in daily home hemodialysis and matched thrice-weekly in-center hemodialysis patientsEric D Weinhandl
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, MN 55404, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 23:895-904. 2012..Continued surveillance should strengthen inference about causes of mortality and determine whether treatment effects are homogeneous throughout the dialysis population...
Association of mean weekly epoetin alfa dose with mortality risk in a retrospective cohort study of Medicare hemodialysis patientsEric D Weinhandl
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, 914 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
Am J Nephrol 34:298-308. 2011..Appropriately designed observational studies are needed to clarify the association of ESA dosing with mortality risk...
Protective effect of intravenous levocarnitine on subsequent-month hospitalization among prevalent hemodialysis patients, 1998 to 2003Eric D Weinhandl
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 50:803-12. 2007..Levocarnitine deficiency in hemodialysis patients is common. Although the effect of intravenous levocarnitine therapy was studied in small trials, the effect on global outcomes in larger populations is unclear...
Comparative mortality of hemodialysis patients at for-profit and not-for-profit dialysis facilities in the United States, 1998 to 2003: a retrospective analysisRobert N Foley
United States Renal Data System, 914 South 8th Street, Suite S 406, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
BMC Nephrol 9:6. 2008....
Association between number of months below K/DOQI haemoglobin target and risk of hospitalization and deathAreef Ishani
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, 914 South 8th Street, Suite S 253, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
Nephrol Dial Transplant 23:1682-9. 2008..We aimed to determine the consequences associated with cumulative number of months below target haemoglobin concentrations...
Propensity-matched mortality comparison of incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patientsEric D Weinhandl
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 21:499-506. 2010..These data suggest that increased use of peritoneal dialysis may benefit incident ESRD patients...
A simple tool to predict outcomes after kidney transplantBertram L Kasiske
Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 56:947-60. 2010..Surprisingly few tools have been developed to predict outcomes after kidney transplant...
Linking Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data with prospective DCOR trial data: methods and data comparison resultsWendy L St Peter
The College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Hemodial Int 12:480-91. 2008..Linking patients to the data-rich CMS ESRD database allowed assessment of additional important secondary end points at a relatively low cost compared with prospective data collection...
Anaemia and mortality in haemodialysis patients: interaction of propensity score for predicted anaemia and actual haemoglobin levelsTricia L Roberts
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, 914 South 8th Street, MN 55404, USA
Nephrol Dial Transplant 21:1652-62. 2006..0212). CONCLUSIONS: Integrating factors predictive of anaemia improves overall prognostic discrimination. Propensity score adjustment refines the prognostic association of haemoglobin levels in haemodialysis patients...
Issues regarding 'immortal time' in the analysis of the treatment effects in observational studiesJiannong Liu
United States Renal Data System, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, USA
Kidney Int 81:341-50. 2012..Results from the DaVita data were consistent with the simulation. Careful consideration of methodology is needed in observational analyses with time-dependent treatment...
Survival of dialysis patients after cardiac arrest and the impact of implantable cardioverter defibrillatorsCharles A Herzog
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, USA
Kidney Int 68:818-25. 2005..The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to determine ICD use in dialysis patients and impact on survival...
Estimated number of prevalent cases of metastatic bone disease in the US adult populationShuling Li
Chronic Disease Research Group, Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Clin Epidemiol 4:87-93. 2012..The prevalence of metastatic bone disease in the US population is not well understood. We sought to estimate the current number of US adults with metastatic bone disease using two large administrative data sets...
