Task Force Advises Excluding Race as Factor in Estimates of Kidney ...

Task force advises excluding race as factor in estimates of kidney function. Joan Stephenson, PhD.

Task Force Advises Excluding Race as Factor in Estimates of Kidney Function ... JAMA Health Forum. 2021 Oct 1;2(10):e213788. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.

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Content may be subject to copyright. ... involve a race variable to gauge kidney function. ... ASN's Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Task Force Advises Excluding Race as Factor in Estimates of Kidney ...

In recent years, use of an equation that incorporates race for estimating kidney function (the estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR) has ...

A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the ...

A Task Force from the National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology developed recommendations for reassessing inclusion of race ...

NKF/ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in ...

Since September 2020, the NKF-ASN Task Force has been examining every aspect of the inclusion of race in calculations that estimate adult kidney function and ...

eGFR and Race -FINAL REPORT - American Society of Nephrology

Task Force recommends the adoption of the new eGFR 2021 CKD EPI creatinine equation that estimates kidney function without a race variable.

A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of...

A Task Force from the National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology developed recommendations for reassessing inclusion of race in the ...

Removing Race from Kidney Disease Diagnosis - PMC

In July 2020, ASN and NKF formed a joint task force to reassess the inclusion of race in diagnosing kidney diseases. ... Task force members included both patients ...

Removing Race from Diagnosing Kidney Disease and Addressing ...

A little over a year ago, NKF and ASN formed a joint task force to reassess the inclusion of race in the diagnosis of kidney disease. Both organizations have ...

A Canadian Commentary on the NKF-ASN Task Force ...

As a result, this report presents the viewpoint of the majority members. We endorsed many of the recommendations from the National Kidney Foundation–American ...

An Endorsement of the Removal of Race From GFR Estimation ...

In July 2020, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) formed a joint task force to reassess the use of ...

eGFR Test Change: Removal of Race from the Calculation

However, in 2021, a task force led by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) announced ...

Implementing and Evaluating the New Race-Free Equation to ...

Crystal Gadegbeku, MD, Department Chair of Kidney Medicine at Cleveland Clinic and task force member, says, “As a group, we unanimously agreed that race should ...

Race and eGFR: Addressing Health Disparities in Chronic Kidney ...

Starting on May 4, 2021, UC Davis Health will calculate estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) rate without a parameter for race.

Evaluating the Impact and Rationale of Race-Specific Estimations of ...

Without the MDRD eGFR race adjustment, 3.3 million (10.4%) more Black Americans would reach a diagnostic threshold for Stage 3 Chronic Kidney ...

Eliminating Race from Kidney Function Assessments - Testing.com

... race as a factor in kidney function estimates ... In addition to implementing the new equation, the task force also recommends ...

Task force recommends dropping race from kidney function ...

"Using race as a testing factor risks kidney misdiagnosis," said Afshin Parsa, MD, program director of the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort at ...

Remove Race From Equation Used to Assess Kidney Function ...

Long-awaited reports released Thursday call for eliminating race in estimated glomerular filtration rate equations and point to alternatives ...

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 ...