Effect of electronic patient record use on mortality in End Stage Renal Disease, a model chronic disease: retrospective analysis of 9 years of prospectively collected data

Table 2 Primary disease causing ESRD

	All Units (%)	USRDS* (%)
Diabetes mellitus Type 1 (juvenile)	4.0	6.3
Diabetes mellitus Type 1I (adult onset or unspecified)	32.4	29.5
Glomerulonephritis	14.6	15.7
Hypertension	24.2	22.3
Systemic lupus erythematosus	1.9	1.9
Polycystic kidney disease	4.2	4.2
AIDS nephropathy	1.9	0.6
Neoplasm (renal and urological), myeloma, amyloidosis	1.6	0.9
Hydronephrosis, obstruction, infection	2.9	4.6

*USRDS data are prevalence of all ESRD patients for the years 1998–2005 combined.

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