title: Seven essential tools of a cardiologist's survival kit.
authors.affiliation: ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: v.s.stel@amc.uva.nl.
authors.forename: Vianda S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Stel
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Vienna, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Section for Clinical Biometrics, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heinze
authors.affiliation: CNR-IFC Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Renal and Transplantation Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, 89125 Reggio Cal., Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tripepi
authors.affiliation: CNR-IFC Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Renal and Transplantation Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, 89125 Reggio Cal., Italy.
authors.forename: Carmine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zoccali
authors.affiliation: ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Kitty J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Jager
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D002309:Cardiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D016019:Survival Analysis
keywords: Cardiology; Cox regression; Epidemiology; Kaplan–Meier method; Nephrology; Survival analysis