A Study of Drug-Induced Kidney Disease

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: End Stage Renal Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00729014

200804062R

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify incidence of Chinese herb nephropathy in a medical center

Full description

This is a retrospective study, by computer screening, chart review and phone survey to find herbal nephropathy and determine the cause-relationship.

Using ICD-9-CM code as a tool to screen the newly diagnosed ESRD in NTUH computer data base, and divided patients into those with underlying disease(s) that cause the renal failure and those without.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient who was newly diagnosed as end stage renal disease who need dialysis

Exclusion criteria

• started dialysis before 2000