Change in appropriate referrals to nephrologists after the introduction of automatic reporting of the estimated glomerular filtration rate

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Akbari, Ayub ^a   Grimshaw, Jeremy ^b,d   Stacey, Dawn ^d   Hogg, William ^c   Ramsay, Tim ^d   Cheng Fitzpatrick, Marcella ^d   Magner, Peter ^a   Bell, Robert ^a   Karpinski, Jolanta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858697377     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.110678     Document Type: Article

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