Published in Am J Kidney Dis on August 01, 2005
Acute kidney injury increases risk of ESRD among elderly. J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 6.91
Functional status of elderly adults before and after initiation of dialysis. N Engl J Med (2009) 6.45
Dialysis-requiring acute renal failure increases the risk of progressive chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int (2009) 5.28
Mortality after hospitalization with mild, moderate, and severe hyponatremia. Am J Med (2009) 3.76
Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D at critical care initiation is associated with increased mortality. Crit Care Med (2012) 2.97
Association of low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and mortality in the critically ill. Crit Care Med (2011) 2.45
Defining incident chronic kidney disease in the research setting: The ARIC Study. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 2.22
Tradeoffs between accuracy measures for electronic health care data algorithms. J Clin Epidemiol (2011) 2.06
Myocardial infarction risk among patients with fractures receiving bisphosphonates. Mayo Clin Proc (2014) 1.98
The growth of acute kidney injury: a rising tide or just closer attention to detail? Kidney Int (2014) 1.80
Elevation of blood urea nitrogen is predictive of long-term mortality in critically ill patients independent of "normal" creatinine. Crit Care Med (2011) 1.57
Performance and limitations of administrative data in the identification of AKI. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2014) 1.38
Validation of CKD and related conditions in existing data sets: A systematic review. Am J Kidney Dis (2010) 1.26
Mining high-dimensional administrative claims data to predict early hospital readmissions. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2013) 1.19
The use of invasive cardiac procedures after acute myocardial infarction in long-term dialysis patients. Am Heart J (2006) 1.13
Associations of kidney function with cardiovascular medication use after myocardial infarction. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 1.12
Maximum potential benefit of implantable defibrillators in preventing sudden death after hospital admission because of heart failure. CMAJ (2009) 1.10
Low documentation of chronic kidney disease among high-risk patients in a managed care population: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Nephrol (2009) 1.08
Risk factors for acute kidney injury in older adults with critical illness: a retrospective cohort study. Am J Kidney Dis (2014) 1.04
Chronic kidney disease itself is a causal risk factor for stroke beyond traditional cardiovascular risk factors: a nationwide cohort study in Taiwan. PLoS One (2012) 1.03
Severe cutaneous reactions requiring hospitalization in allopurinol initiators: a population-based cohort study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) (2013) 1.03
Validation of a case definition to define chronic dialysis using outpatient administrative data. BMC Med Res Methodol (2011) 1.01
A method to predict breast cancer stage using Medicare claims. Epidemiol Perspect Innov (2010) 1.01
Impact of chronic kidney disease on risk of incident atrial fibrillation and subsequent survival in medicare patients. J Am Heart Assoc (2012) 0.99
Kidney function and long-term medication adherence after myocardial infarction in the elderly. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 0.95
Association of preventive health care with atherosclerotic heart disease and mortality in CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol (2009) 0.94
Hospice, opiates, and acute care service use among the elderly before death from heart failure or cancer. Am Heart J (2010) 0.94
Diabetes and drug-associated hyperkalemia: effect of potassium monitoring. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 0.93
Medicare capitation model, functional status, and multiple comorbidities: model accuracy. Am J Manag Care (2008) 0.89
Validation study of medicare claims to identify older US adults with CKD using the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study. Am J Kidney Dis (2014) 0.89
Risks of death and end-stage renal disease after surgical compared with percutaneous coronary revascularization in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease. Circulation (2012) 0.88
CKD and hospitalization in the elderly: a community-based cohort study in the United Kingdom. Am J Kidney Dis (2010) 0.88
Effect of Prior Anti-VEGF Injections on the Risk of Retained Lens Fragments and Endophthalmitis after Cataract Surgery in the Elderly. Ophthalmology (2015) 0.83
Estimating prevalence of CKD stages 3-5 using health system data. Am J Kidney Dis (2013) 0.82
Underreporting of nursing home utilization on the CMS-2728 in older incident dialysis patients and implications for assessing mortality risk. BMC Nephrol (2015) 0.82
Does inflammation fuel the fire in CKD? Am J Kidney Dis (2009) 0.82
Acute kidney injury in statin initiators. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2013) 0.82
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is associated with risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Nationwide Case-Cohort Study. Sci Rep (2016) 0.82
Antihypertensive Medication Use in Older Patients Transitioning from Chronic Kidney Disease to End-Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2016) 0.80
The Association of Losartan and Ramipril Therapy With Kidney and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Chinese Nation-Wide Cohort Study in Taiwan. Medicine (Baltimore) (2015) 0.77
Predictors of gastrointestinal bleeding among patients with atrial fibrillation after initiating dabigatran therapy. Pharmacotherapy (2015) 0.76
Causes of the change in the rates of mortality and severe complications of diabetes mellitus: 1992-2012. Med Care (2015) 0.76
Association between macular degeneration and mild to moderate chronic kidney disease: A nationwide population-based study. Medicine (Baltimore) (2017) 0.75
Identification of volume overload hospitalizations among hemodialysis patients using administrative claims: a validation study. BMC Nephrol (2016) 0.75
Racial differences in statin adherence following hospital discharge for ischemic stroke. Neurology (2017) 0.75
Determination of the optimal case definition for the diagnosis of end-stage renal disease from administrative claims data in Manitoba, Canada. CMAJ Open (2015) 0.75
Risks of death and graft failure after surgical versus percutaneous coronary revascularization in renal transplant patients. J Am Heart Assoc (2013) 0.75
Fate of the contralateral limb after lower extremity amputation. J Vasc Surg (2013) 0.75
Ethnic differences in the development of albuminuria: the DISTANCE study. Am J Manag Care (2011) 0.75
Incidence and economic burden of osteoporosis-related fractures in the United States, 2005-2025. J Bone Miner Res (2007) 14.84
Variable selection for propensity score models. Am J Epidemiol (2006) 10.68
A review of uses of health care utilization databases for epidemiologic research on therapeutics. J Clin Epidemiol (2005) 8.77
Risk of death in elderly users of conventional vs. atypical antipsychotic medications. N Engl J Med (2005) 8.44
High-dimensional propensity score adjustment in studies of treatment effects using health care claims data. Epidemiology (2009) 7.40
A review of the application of propensity score methods yielded increasing use, advantages in specific settings, but not substantially different estimates compared with conventional multivariable methods. J Clin Epidemiol (2005) 7.31
Long-term persistence in use of statin therapy in elderly patients. JAMA (2002) 7.19
Accuracy of Medicare claims-based diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction: estimating positive predictive value on the basis of review of hospital records. Am Heart J (2004) 6.57
Surgery versus physical therapy for a meniscal tear and osteoarthritis. N Engl J Med (2013) 6.08
A randomized study of how physicians interpret research funding disclosures. N Engl J Med (2012) 5.47
Antidepressant use in pregnancy and the risk of cardiac defects. N Engl J Med (2014) 4.99
Nonadherence to adjuvant tamoxifen therapy in women with primary breast cancer. J Clin Oncol (2003) 4.95
Indications for propensity scores and review of their use in pharmacoepidemiology. Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol (2006) 4.70
Self-management education programs in chronic disease: a systematic review and methodological critique of the literature. Arch Intern Med (2004) 4.68
Full coverage for preventive medications after myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med (2011) 4.51
The comparative safety of analgesics in older adults with arthritis. Arch Intern Med (2010) 4.47
New FDA breakthrough-drug category--implications for patients. N Engl J Med (2014) 4.30
Adherence to therapy with oral antineoplastic agents. J Natl Cancer Inst (2002) 4.16
A combined comorbidity score predicted mortality in elderly patients better than existing scores. J Clin Epidemiol (2011) 3.98
Use of antidepressants near delivery and risk of postpartum hemorrhage: cohort study of low income women in the United States. BMJ (2013) 3.88
Anticonvulsant medications and the risk of suicide, attempted suicide, or violent death. JAMA (2010) 3.85
Cost-effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty in the United States: patient risk and hospital volume. Arch Intern Med (2009) 3.84
Adherence to lipid-lowering therapy and the use of preventive health services: an investigation of the healthy user effect. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 3.82
The epidemiology of prescriptions abandoned at the pharmacy. Ann Intern Med (2010) 3.78
The implications of choice: prescribing generic or preferred pharmaceuticals improves medication adherence for chronic conditions. Arch Intern Med (2006) 3.64
Burden of changes in pill appearance for patients receiving generic cardiovascular medications after myocardial infarction: cohort and nested case-control studies. Ann Intern Med (2014) 3.62
Initiation of tumor necrosis factor-α antagonists and the risk of hospitalization for infection in patients with autoimmune diseases. JAMA (2011) 3.58
Evaluating short-term drug effects using a physician-specific prescribing preference as an instrumental variable. Epidemiology (2006) 3.54
Effect of smoking on comparative efficacy of antiplatelet agents: systematic review, meta-analysis, and indirect comparison. BMJ (2013) 3.43
The quality of pharmacologic care for vulnerable older patients. Ann Intern Med (2004) 3.34
Analytic strategies to adjust confounding using exposure propensity scores and disease risk scores: nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and short-term mortality in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 3.33
The implications of therapeutic complexity on adherence to cardiovascular medications. Arch Intern Med (2011) 3.27
Rethinking the use of physicians as hired expert lecturers. Ann Intern Med (2014) 3.22
Drug-review deadlines and safety problems. N Engl J Med (2008) 3.16
Variations in pill appearance of antiepileptic drugs and the risk of nonadherence. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 3.13
Cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in patients using clopidogrel with proton pump inhibitors after percutaneous coronary intervention or acute coronary syndrome. Circulation (2009) 3.09
Balancing innovation, access, and profits--market exclusivity for biologics. N Engl J Med (2009) 3.08
Incentives for drug development--the curious case of colchicine. N Engl J Med (2010) 3.06
Tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonist use and cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 3.04
Association between disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and diabetes risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. JAMA (2011) 3.02
Confounding control in healthcare database research: challenges and potential approaches. Med Care (2010) 3.01
Relationship between selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors and acute myocardial infarction in older adults. Circulation (2004) 2.98
University-based science and biotechnology products: defining the boundaries of intellectual property. JAMA (2005) 2.95
Compliance with osteoporosis medications. Arch Intern Med (2005) 2.91
Development of classification and response criteria for rheumatic diseases. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 2.88
A comparison of patient characteristics and outcomes in selected European and U.S. rheumatoid arthritis registries. Semin Arthritis Rheum (2010) 2.88
Noncompliance with antihypertensive medications: the impact of depressive symptoms and psychosocial factors. J Gen Intern Med (2002) 2.85
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and acute myocardial infarction. Arch Intern Med (2002) 2.82
Selective prescribing led to overestimation of the benefits of lipid-lowering drugs. J Clin Epidemiol (2006) 2.81
Internet marketing of herbal products. JAMA (2003) 2.77
Economic implications of evidence-based prescribing for hypertension: can better care cost less? JAMA (2004) 2.77
Treatment effects in the presence of unmeasured confounding: dealing with observations in the tails of the propensity score distribution--a simulation study. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 2.74
The comparative safety of opioids for nonmalignant pain in older adults. Arch Intern Med (2010) 2.71
Comparative mortality risk of anemia management practices in incident hemodialysis patients. JAMA (2010) 2.71
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program: status and direction. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2012) 2.70
Sending pharma better signals. Science (2005) 2.69
Improved comorbidity adjustment for predicting mortality in Medicare populations. Health Serv Res (2003) 2.65
The increasing prevalence of atrial fibrillation among hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 2.61
Characteristics of clinical trials to support approval of orphan vs nonorphan drugs for cancer. JAMA (2011) 2.60
Improvements in long-term mortality after myocardial infarction and increased use of cardiovascular drugs after discharge: a 10-year trend analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol (2008) 2.58
Performance of propensity score calibration--a simulation study. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 2.56
Adjusting effect estimates for unmeasured confounding with validation data using propensity score calibration. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 2.55
Repeated hospitalizations predict mortality in the community population with heart failure. Am Heart J (2007) 2.55
Practical, legal, and ethical issues in expanded access to investigational drugs. N Engl J Med (2015) 2.53
Medicaid prior-authorization programs and the use of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors. N Engl J Med (2004) 2.52
Veteran's affairs hospital discharge databases coded serious bacterial infections accurately. J Clin Epidemiol (2006) 2.51