Acute kidney injury in low-resource settings: Barriers to diagnosis, awareness, and treatment and strategies to overcome these barriers

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 834-840

  Lunyera, Joseph ^a,b   Kilonzo, Kajiru ^c   Lewington, Andrew ^d   Yeates, Karen ^e   Finkelstein, Fredric O ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^d ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury (AKI); acute renal failure; awareness; death; dialysis; education; global health; health care equity; health promotion; low resource settings (LRS); peritoneal dialysis (PD)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHECKLIST; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EQUITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEMEDICINE; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84955598434     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.12.018     Document Type: Article

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