Chronic kidney disease controversy: How expanding definitions are unnecessarily labelling many people as diseased

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7919, 2013, Pages

  Moynihan, Ray ^a   Glassock, Richard ^b   Doust, Jenny ^a  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYSTATIN C;

ALBUMINURIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; EARLY INTERVENTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

EID: 84881457001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4298     Document Type: Article

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