Commonly used measure of CKD found not cost-effective

Measuring glomerular filtration rates from routine blood work may not be not a cost-effective way to identify people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the February 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that the potential benefit that this commonly used procedure provides for identifying individuals with previously unrecognised CKD can be easily reversed by the consequences of false positive diagnoses of CKD...

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