Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 4 , Pages 524-528 , April 2006

Role of Creatinine Clearance as a Screening Test in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

Presented in part to the American Spinal Injury Association, May 13, 2005, Dallas, TX.

  • Farhad Sepahpanah, MD

      Affiliations

    • Spinal Cord Injury Unit, VA-Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
    • ,
  • Stephen P. Burns, MD

      Affiliations

    • Spinal Cord Injury Unit, VA-Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
    • Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • ,
  • Barbara McKnight, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • ,
  • Claire C. Yang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Spinal Cord Injury Unit, VA-Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA
    • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Claire C. Yang, MD, Section of Urology, S112-UR, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, 1660 S Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108

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 Supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (grant no. R49/CE000197). The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2005.11.032

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 4 , Pages 524-528 , April 2006

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