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Effect of primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate on the timing of their subspecialty referral decisions

BACKGROUND: Primary care providers' suboptimal recognition of the severity of chronic kidney disease (CKD) may contribute to untimely referrals of patients with CKD to subspecialty care. It is unknown whether U.S. primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)...

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Autores principales: Greer, Raquel C, Powe, Neil R, Jaar, Bernard G, Troll, Misty U, Boulware, L Ebony
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21235763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-12-1