The advantage of a uniform terminology and staging system for chronic kidney disease (CKD)

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1446-1451

  Levin, Adeera ^a  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Glomerular filtration rate; Late referral; Mislabelling; Terminology

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACCURACY; AGED; AWARENESS; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; NEPHROLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; STAGING;

CHRONIC DISEASE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0042164693     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg241     Document Type: Editorial

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