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‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future
Specialized centers are needed for nephrology and urology care of children. The justifications are the specialized nature of care needed and the growing incidence and prevalence. Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at risk of morbidity, mortality, and decreased quality of life. Current pe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704656 http://dx.doi.org/10.5527/wjn.v12.i1.10 |
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description | Specialized centers are needed for nephrology and urology care of children. The justifications are the specialized nature of care needed and the growing incidence and prevalence. Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at risk of morbidity, mortality, and decreased quality of life. Current pediatric practice structures are apparently poorly suited for the increasing demands of chronic disease in children. Kidney diseases account for around 8%-10% of total outpatients and 12% of admissions to the pediatric ward in hospitals. The major causes of pediatric CKD in registries are congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (around 50%), followed by inherited nephropathies and glomerulonephritis. The nephrologist’s role is important for specialized investigations and treatment. Urologist’s services are essential for the wide variety of conditions from birth to early adult age for complete cure and complementing medical management. Children have a right to treatments and to resources that are as sophisticated and advanced as those available to adults. Simple and sophisticated care for all children with ailments of the kidneys and related structures is important for ensuring ‘health for all’. The availability of ‘Child Kidney Care Centers’ will go a long way in improving the lives of affected children. |
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spelling | pubmed-98468662023-01-25 ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future Jain, Sunil World J Nephrol Minireviews Specialized centers are needed for nephrology and urology care of children. The justifications are the specialized nature of care needed and the growing incidence and prevalence. Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at risk of morbidity, mortality, and decreased quality of life. Current pediatric practice structures are apparently poorly suited for the increasing demands of chronic disease in children. Kidney diseases account for around 8%-10% of total outpatients and 12% of admissions to the pediatric ward in hospitals. The major causes of pediatric CKD in registries are congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (around 50%), followed by inherited nephropathies and glomerulonephritis. The nephrologist’s role is important for specialized investigations and treatment. Urologist’s services are essential for the wide variety of conditions from birth to early adult age for complete cure and complementing medical management. Children have a right to treatments and to resources that are as sophisticated and advanced as those available to adults. Simple and sophisticated care for all children with ailments of the kidneys and related structures is important for ensuring ‘health for all’. The availability of ‘Child Kidney Care Centers’ will go a long way in improving the lives of affected children. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023-01-25 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9846866/ /pubmed/36704656 http://dx.doi.org/10.5527/wjn.v12.i1.10 Text en ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Minireviews Jain, Sunil ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
title | ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
title_full | ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
title_fullStr | ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
title_short | ‘Children Kidney Care Centers’: Rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
title_sort | ‘children kidney care centers’: rationale, requirements and recommendations for best facilities and better future |
topic | Minireviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704656 http://dx.doi.org/10.5527/wjn.v12.i1.10 |
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