TY - JOUR T1 - Early nephrology referral: How early is early enough? AU - Quaglia M, Canavese C, Stratta P Y1 - 2011/12/12 N1 - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.585 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 2065 EP - 2066 VL - 171 IS - 22 N2 - We believe that the most likely reason why predialysis nephrology care does not appear to have a greater impact on patient survival1- 3 is that the cutoff time they chose to distinguish between late and early referral—within 3 months of dialysis start or before that time, respectively—is inadequate to assess any impact on hard end points. SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.585 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.585 ER -