Validation of a United Kingdom Model to Predict Mortality in Incident Dialysis Patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study Cohort: Introduction of a Clinical Risk Score

Affiliations

• ¹ KfH - Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation, Neu-Isenburg, Germany.
• ² Department of Medicine I, Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• ³ Tufts Medical Center, Institute of Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Boston, MA.
• ⁴ Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI.
• ⁵ Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, formerly United Kingdom Renal Registry, Bristol, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine II, Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁷ Division of Nephrology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.