Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage renal disease survival time: proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people over 14 years
The USRDS is the largest and most comprehensive national ESRD surveillance system in the US (Collins et al., 2015). The USRDS contains data on all ESRD cases in the US through the Medical Evidence Report CMS-2728 which is mandated for all new patients diagnosed with ESRD (Foley and Collins, 2013). Detailed information …