Rethinking race and kidney function

Rethinking race and kidney function

4 years ago
Anonymous $RGO3jP_V_c

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201202114527.htm

To reflect this growing realization, hospital systems and professional medical organizations have started reconsidering the use of race in clinical calculators that estimate how well a person's kidneys work. Indeed, some hospital systems have already removed race from these commonly used clinical tools.

But what this move might mean for patients remains unclear.