Reporting of the estimated glomerular filtration rate decreased creatinine clearance testing

Kidney International

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1245-1247

  Kagoma, Yoan K ^a   Garg, Amit X ^a,b,c   Li, Lihua ^b   Jain, Arsh K ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creatinine clearance; glomerular filtration rate; guidelines; improving global outcomes; kidney disease

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; VOLUNTARY REPORTING;

EID: 84862776979     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2011.483     Document Type: Article

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