In Reply to 'Estimated GFR for Drug Dosing: A Bedside Formula', 'Drug Dose Adjustments in Patients With Renal Impairment', 'Use of the MDRD Study Equation for Drug Dosing', and 'Estimated GFR vs Creatinine Clearance for Drug Dosing'

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 985-986

  Stevens, Lesley A ^a   Nolin, Thomas ^b   Levey, Andrew S ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACCURACY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DOSE CALCULATION; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

EID: 70350010462     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.08.017     Document Type: Letter

References (8)

1. Jones G.R.D. Estimated GFR for drug dosing: a bedside formula. Am J Kidney Dis 54 5 (2009) 982-983
2. Czock D., Bertsche T., and Haefeli W.E. Drug dose adjustments in patients with renal impairment. Am J Kidney Dis 54 5 (2009) 983-984
3. Saad M., and Cassagnol M. Use of the MDRD Study equation for drug dosing. Am J Kidney Dis 54 5 (2009) 984
4. Stevens L.A., Coresh J., Greene T., and Levey A.S. Assessing kidney function-measured and estimated glomerular filtration rate. N Engl J Med 354 23 (2006) 2473-2483
5. Stevens L.A., Manzi J., Levey A.S., et al. Impact of creatinine calibration on performance of GFR estimating equations in a pooled individual patient database. Am J Kidney Dis 50 1 (2007) 21-35
6. Dowling T.C., Matzke G.R., and Murphy J.E. Estimated GFR vs creatinine clearance for drug dosing. Am J Kidney Dis 54 5 (2009) 984-985
7. Stevens LA, Levey AS. Use of MDRD Study equation to estimate kidney function for drug dosing. Clin Pharmacol Ther, in press.
8. National Kidney Disease Education Program. Estimation of kidney function for prescription medication dosage in adults. http://www.nkdep.nih.gov/professionals/drug-dosing-information.htm Accessed September 9, 2009.