Nephrology Visits and Health Care Resource Use Before and After Reporting Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate
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Nephrology visits and health care resource use before and after reporting estimated glomerular filtration rate.
CONTEXT Laboratory reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has been widely implemented, with limited evaluation. OBJECTIVE To examine trends in nephrologist visits and health care resource use before and after estimated GFR reporting. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Community-based cohort study (N = 1,135,968) with time-series analysis. Participants were identified from a labo...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.303