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CLINICAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 11, Pages 1993-1995Publisher
AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.02940314
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- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Kidney Foundation
- International Kidney Foundation
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The American College of Physicians recently published a guideline on screening for CKD that recommends against screening for CKD in asymptomatic adults without risk factors. The generally accepted criteria for population-based screening for disease state that screening should improve important clinical outcomes while limiting harms for those individuals screened. However, CKD screening does not meet these criteria. There is currently no evidence evaluating or demonstrating benefits for providing early treatment for patients identified via screening who do not have risk factors. On the other hand, harms are associated with the screening and include false-positive results, unnecessary testing and treatment, and disease labeling.
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