Medical Students Lead Effort to Remove Race from Kidney Function ...

A growing movement led by US medical students across the country is working to eliminate the use of race as an adjustment in eGFR.

“We expect earlier referral for black patients and better chronic kidney disease care and transplant outcomes,” said Morse. Public efforts by ...

Study supports removing race from estimate of kidney function

An in-depth analysis by Vanderbilt investigators of published research studies supports removing race from the calculation of estimated glomerular filtration ...

Group's efforts lead to removal of race as a variable in common test ...

Eliminating the race-based adjustment has several clinical implications: it allows for more timely management and referral of early kidney ...

Medical students call for reexamining how kidney function is estimated

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston officially removed the use of race in estimation of GFR in 2017. Around this time, students ...

Removing Race from Kidney Disease Diagnosis - PMC

Fundamental to this re-examination is the recognition that race is a social construct and not a biologic determinant. ... In nephrology, led in large part by ...

Medical Students Lead Effort to Remove Race from Kidney Function ...

"Medical Students Lead Effort to Remove Race from Kidney Function Estimates" published on Jul 2020 by American Society of Nephrology.

Abandoning a Race-biased Tool for Kidney Diagnosis

After noticing Yale's caution on the subject, Cerdeña and many others urged the nation's leading kidney organizations—the National Kidney ...

How the University of Washington Implemented a Change in eGFR ...

A meeting between laboratory medicine leadership, nephrology, student-facing faculty, and a critical race theory expert resulted in considering removing the ...

UCSF Leads National Effort to Improve Racial Equity in Kidney ...

The movement for race-free medicine, in nephrology and beyond, was spurred by activism from medical students, residents and faculty at UCSF and ...

UW Health, School of Medicine and Public Health remove race from ...

As part of their efforts to address systemic racism in medicine, UW Health and University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health ...

Translational research leader spearheads effort to change kidney ...

Translational research leader spearheads effort to change kidney function calculation to remove racial variables ... The system-wide change for ...

Backed by Penn Medicine Research, National Task Force ...

Backed by Penn Medicine Research, National Task Force Recommends Removing Race from Kidney Function Equation · The new clinical recommendations ...

Removing Race Adjustment in Chronic Kidney Disease Care | FSI

A new study led by Stanford Health Policy researchers finds that two years after implementation of the eGFR equation without race adjustment at ...

Eliminating Race as a Variable in Estimating Kidney Function

After a thorough evaluation of the underlying science, a literature review and discussions with colleagues at other academic medical centers, ...

Kidney News July 2020 12#7

Issue Articles · Medical Students Lead Effort to Remove Race from Kidney Function Estimates · The Inside Story: How New York Nephrologists, National Suppliers ...

UCSF Leads Effort to Improve Racial Equity in Kidney Medicine

The movement for race-free medicine, in nephrology and beyond, was spurred by activism from medical students, residents and faculty at UCSF and ...

Reevaluating race in medicine: Removing the eGFR adjustment is a ...

The task force's work led to a better understanding of the ways that structural racism is enmeshed in medicine, Krohn said. Removing the eGFR ...

'An entire system is changing': UW Medicine stops using race-based ...

After years of efforts led by UW medical students to remove race as a variable in measuring kidney function, UW Medicine announced May 29 ...

Removing Race from Estimates of Kidney Function

We must move beyond this if we are to address the racism and racial disparities that impede the care of people with kidney disease.” ASN and NKF ...