Comparing the Cockcroft-Gault and MDRD equations for calculation of GFR and drug doses in the elderly: Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 644-645

  Berman, Nathaniel ^a   Hostetter, Thomas H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; CREATININE; DIGOXIN;

AGED; BODY SURFACE; CANADA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COCKCROFT GAULT EQUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORIMETRY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENZYME ASSAY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODIFICATION OF DIET IN RENAL DISEASE EQUATION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 36348994917     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0627     Document Type: Note

References (3)

1. Jafar TH et al. (2005) Serum creatinine as marker of kidney function in South Asians: a study of reduced GFR in adults in Pakistan. J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 1413-1419
2. Froissart M et al. (2005) Predictive performance of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and Cockcroft-Gault equations for estimating renal function. J Am Soc Nephrol 16: 763-773
3. Lamb EJ et al. (2003) Estimation of glomerular filtration rate in older patients with chronic renal insufficiency: is the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula an improvement? J Am Geriatr Soc 51: 1012-1017