Effect of primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate on the timing of their subspecialty referral decisions
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-01-01
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Series: | BMC Nephrology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/12/1 |