The 1989 morbidity and mortality meeting: how far have we come?
The Morbidity, Mortality, and Prescription of Dialysis Symposium was an international meeting held almost 9 years ago in Dallas, TX. The proceedings were subsequently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. This article reviews key material from that meeting and evaluates what we have accomplished in the intervening years.
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Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, USA.
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