Authors' Reply

Virginia Wang^{1

2

3}, Cynthia J Coffman^{4

5}, Ann M O'Hare^{6

7}, Matthew L Maciejewski^{4

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Health Services Research and Development, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina; virginia.wang@va.gov.
² Department of Population Health Sciences.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and.
⁴ Health Services Research and Development, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁶ Center for Health Services Research in Older Adults, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington; and.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Comment

Virginia Wang et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jul.

. 2019 Jul;30(7):1338-1339.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.2019040402. Epub 2019 May 16.

Virginia Wang^{1

2

3}, Cynthia J Coffman^{4

5}, Ann M O'Hare^{6

7}, Matthew L Maciejewski^{4

2

3}

¹ Health Services Research and Development, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina; virginia.wang@va.gov.
² Department of Population Health Sciences.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and.
⁴ Health Services Research and Development, Durham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁶ Center for Health Services Research in Older Adults, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington; and.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

No abstract available

Keywords: Veterans Health Administration; comparative analysis; confounding; dialysis survival.

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Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings.
Wang V, Coffman CJ, Stechuchak KM, Berkowitz TSZ, Hebert PL, Edelman D, O'Hare AM, Crowley ST, Weidenbacher HJ, Maciejewski ML. Wang V, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Jan;30(1):159-168. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2018050521. Epub 2018 Dec 7. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019. PMID: 30530657 Free PMC article.
Confounding of Race/Ethnicity and Age in the Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings.
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1. Yan G: Confounding of Race/Ethnicity and Age in the Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings. J Am Soc Nephrol 30: 1337, 2019 - PMC - PubMed
1. Wang V, Coffman CJ, Stechuchak KM, Berkowitz TSZ, Hebert PL, Edelman D, et al.: Survival among Veterans Obtaining Dialysis in VA and Non-VA Settings. J Am Soc Nephrol 30: 159–168, 2019 - PMC - PubMed