Prediction of Mortality in Incident Hemodialysis Patients: A Validation and Comparison of CHADS2, CHA2DS2, and CCI Scores

• Hsun Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hsun Yang, Yi-Hsin Chen

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2277-9292

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• Yi-Hsin Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hsun Yang, Yi-Hsin Chen

  * E-mail: nephp06@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Teng-Fu Hsieh,

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Taichung Tzu Chi General Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Shiun-Yang Chuang,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Tzu Chi General Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Ju Wu

  Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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