The costs and benefits of automatic estimated glomerular filtration rate reporting

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 419-427

  Den Hartog, Julia R ^a   Reese, Peter P ^b   Cizman, Borut ^c   Feldman, Harold I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE COURSE; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CREATININE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MANDATORY REPORTING; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66849087450     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04080808     Document Type: Article

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