Rethinking race and kidney function

Rethinking race and kidney function

4 years ago
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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.

Rethinking race and kidney function

Dec 3, 2020, 3:16am UTC
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.