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Table 3 Subgroup analyses of the association between all-cause mortality and the use of central venous catheter vs. arteriovenous access according to study characteristics

From: A meta-analysis of the impact of initial hemodialysis access type on mortality in elderly incident hemodialysis population

  1. aRaimann et al. (2017) [42] comprised pre-set region groups of North America, Asia and Europe, and we separately included them into our subgroup analyses