IDENTIFICATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING CHRONIC KIDNEY REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CARE DATA: VALIDATION STUDY BASED ON OPENSAFELY AND UK RENAL REGISTRY

Identification of patients undergoing chronic kidney replacement therapy in primary and secondary care data: validation study based on OpenSAFELY and UK Renal Registry

Objective To validate primary and secondary care codes in electronic health records to identify people receiving chronic kidney replacement therapy based on gold standard registry data.Design Validation study using data from OpenSAFELY and the UK Renal Registry, with the approval of NHS England.Setting Primary and secondary care electronic health r

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Fine-grained sedimentary characteristics and evolution model of Permian Fengcheng Formation in Hashan area, Junggar Basin

The geological conditions of Hashan area on the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin are complicated and it is difficult to explore.It is of great significance to clarify the sedimentary and evolutionary characte-ristics of source rocks in the Permian Fengcheng Formation in this area for expanding oil and gas exploration on the basin margin.Bas

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Western colonial wave in Indian psychiatry - An overview

British colonialism brought a western impact in Indian psychiatry.Starting from the early colonial times when mental asylums were Desk w/Bench set up in major cities of India to cater the British and Indian soldiers.Then in late colonial period there was a discernible growth in the number of mental asylums away from major cities to cater the local

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Do acupuncture trials have lower risk of bias over the last five decades? A methodological study of 4 715 randomized controlled trials.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the change King Canopy Bed of the risk of bias (RoB) of acupuncture randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the past five decades.MethodsMultiple databases were searched.We included RCTs identified from systematic reviews (SRs) on acupuncture.General characteristics and RoB judgment for each domain were extracted.The proportions

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