Low rates of testing and diagnostic codes usage in a commercial clinical laboratory: Evidence for lack of physician awareness of chronic kidney disease

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2439-2448

  Stevens, Lesley A ^a   Fares, George ^a   Fleming, James ^b   Martin, David ^c   Murthy, Kalyani ^d   Qiu, Jiejing ^a   Stark, Paul C ^a   Uhlig, Katrin ^a   Van Lente, Frederick ^e   Levey, Andrew S ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c Southern Health Services Inc   (United States)

^d LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 22744446918     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2005020192     Document Type: Article

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