Reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in New Zealand - What are the clinical laboratories doing?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1246, 2006, Pages

  Saleem, Mohamed ^a   Florkowski, Christopher ^a  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANDATORY REPORTING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; AGED; BLOOD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33845361137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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