Global nephrology workforce: gaps and opportunities toward a sustainable kidney care system

Kidney International Supplements

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 52-63

  Osman, Mohamed A ^a   Alrukhaimi, Mona ^b   Ashuntantang, Gloria E ^c   Bellorin Font, Ezequiel ^d   Benghanem Gharbi, Mohammed ^e   Braam, Branko ^a   Courtney, Mark ^a   Feehally, John ^f   Harris, David C ^g   Jha, Vivekanand ^h,i   Jindal, Kailash ^a   Johnson, David W ^j,k,l   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^m   Kazancioglu, Rumeyza ⁿ   Klarenbach, Scott ^a   Levin, Adeera ^o   Lunney, Meaghan ^p   Okpechi, Ikechi G ^q   Olanrewaju, Timothy Olusegun ^r   Perl, Jeffrey ^s,t   Rashid, Harun Ur ^u   Rondeau, Eric ^v,w   Salako, Babatunde Lawal ^x   Samimi, Arian ^a   Sola, Laura ^y   Tchokhonelidze, Irma ^z   Wiebe, Natasha ^a   Yang, Chih Wei ^aa   Ye, Feng ^a   Zemchenkov, Alexander ^ab,ac   Zhao, Ming hui ^ad,ae,af,ag   Bello, Aminu K ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DUBAI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^e HASSAN II UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^k TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^l PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^s ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^u Hospital and Research Institute   (Bangladesh)

^v ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^w SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^x UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^y Direct Division Epidemiologia   (Uruguay)

^z TBILISI STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^aa CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^ab NORTH WESTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER I I MECHNIKOV   (Russian Federation)

^ac PAVLOV FIRST SAINT PETERSBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^ad PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^ae BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^af BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^ag Tsinghua University   (China)

more..

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; chronic kidney disease; education and training; health manpower; nephrology; workforce

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; NEPHROLOGIST; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREMEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 85041697539     PISSN: 21571724     EISSN: 21571716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.kisu.2017.10.009     Document Type: Review

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