Impact of Automated Reporting of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Veterans Health Administration
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Implementation of automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate among Veterans Affairs laboratories: a retrospective study
BACKGROUND Automated reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a recent advance in laboratory information technology (IT) that generates a measure of kidney function with chemistry laboratory results to aid early detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Because accurate diagnosis of CKD is critical to optimal medical decision-making, several clinical practice guidelines have...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Care
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0025-7079
DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000275