COVID-19 and kidney disease: insights from epidemiology to inform clinical practice

V Mahalingasivam, G Su, M Iwagami… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous studies have aimed to address the
challenges faced by patients with kidney disease and their caregivers. These studies …

[HTML][HTML] Defining measures of kidney function in observational studies using routine health care data: methodological and reporting considerations

JJ Carrero, EL Fu, SV Vestergaard, SK Jensen… - Kidney international, 2023 - Elsevier
The availability of electronic health records and access to a large number of routine
measurements of serum creatinine and urinary albumin enhance the possibilities for …

The epidemiology of multimorbidity in primary care: a retrospective cohort study

A Cassell, D Edwards, A Harshfield, K Rhodes… - British Journal of …, 2018 - bjgp.org
Background Multimorbidity places a substantial burden on patients and the healthcare
system, but few contemporary epidemiological data are available. Aim To describe the …

Risks of covid-19 hospital admission and death for people with learning disability: population based cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

EJ Williamson, HI McDonald, K Bhaskaran, AJ Walker… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To assess the association between learning disability and risk of hospital
admission and death from covid-19 in England among adults and children. Design …

Pharmacoepidemiology for nephrologists (part 2): potential biases and how to overcome them

EL Fu, M van Diepen, Y Xu, M Trevisan… - Clinical Kidney …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Observational pharmacoepidemiological studies using routinely collected healthcare data
are increasingly being used in the field of nephrology to answer questions on the …

Inflammatory skin diseases and the risk of chronic kidney disease: population‐based case–control and cohort analyses

Y Schonmann, KE Mansfield, A Mulick… - British Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Emerging evidence suggests an association between common inflammatory
skin diseases and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Objectives To explore the association …

Propensity scores using missingness pattern information: a practical guide

HA Blake, C Leyrat, KE Mansfield… - Statistics in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electronic health records are a valuable data source for investigating health‐related
questions, and propensity score analysis has become an increasingly popular approach to …

Chronic kidney disease and cause-specific hospitalisation: a matched cohort study using primary and secondary care patient data

M Iwagami, B Caplin, L Smeeth, LA Tomlinson… - British Journal of …, 2018 - bjgp.org
Background Although chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with various outcomes,
the burden of each condition for hospital admission is unknown. Aim To quantify the …

[HTML][HTML] Data challenges in addressing chronic kidney disease in low-and lower-middle-income countries

B Talbot, A Athavale, V Jha, M Gallagher - Kidney International Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is growing globally, particularly in low-and
lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) where access to treatment is poor and the largest …

Combining structured and unstructured data in EMRs to create clinically-defined EMR-derived cohorts

CS Tam, J Gullick, A Saavedra, ST Vernon… - BMC medical informatics …, 2021 - Springer
Background There have been few studies describing how production EMR systems can be
systematically queried to identify clinically-defined populations and limited studies utilising …