Selecting an equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate for use in renal dosage adjustment of drugs in electronic patient record systems

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 823-830

  Rosborough, Terry K ^a   Shepherd, Michele F ^a   Couch, Patty Lind ^a  

^a ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockcroft Gault equation; Creatinine clearance; GFR; Glomerular filtration rate; MDRD equation; Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE; DRUG; UREA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COCKCROFT GAULT EQUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DATA BASE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MDRD EQUATION; NEGRO; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CREATININE; DIET; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 19444370706     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.2005.25.6.823     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. National Kidney Foundation. K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification and stratification. Am J Kidney Dis 2002;39(suppl 1):S76-92.
2. Cockcroft DW, Gault MH. Prediction of creatinine clearance from serum creatinine. Nephron 1976;16:31-41.
3. Levey AS, Bosch JP, Lewis JB, et al. A more accurate method to estimate glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine: a new prediction equation. Modification of diet in renal disease study group. Ann Intern Med 1999;130:461-70.
4. Levey AS, Greene T, Kusek, et al, for the MDRD Study Group. A simplified equation to predict glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine [abstr]. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000;11:155A.
5. Robinson JD, Lupkiewicz SM, Palenik L. Determination of ideal body weight for drug dosage calculations. Am J Hosp Pharm 1983;40:1016-19.
6. Schwartz SN, Pazin GJ, Lyon JA, Ho M, Pasculle AW. A controlled investigation of the pharmacokinetics of gentamicin and tobramycin in obese subjects. J Infect Dis 1978;188:499-505.
7. Quetelet A. Physique sociale: ou essay sur le development des faculties de l'homme. Brussels: C Muquardt, 1869.
8. Mosteller RD. Simplified calculation of body surface area [letter]. N Engl J Med 1987;317:1098.
9. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;1:307-10.
10. National Kidney Foundation. K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification and stratification. Am J Kidney Dis 2002;39(suppl 1):S236-7.
11. Robert S, Zarowitz BJ. Is there a reliable index of glomerular filtration rate in critically ill patients? Drug Intell Clin Pharm 1991;25:169-78.
12. Morse WI, Soeldner JS. The composition of adipose tissue and the nonadipose body of obese and nonobese man. Metabolism 1963;12:99-107.