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Clinical support tool helps primary care health professionals detect and treat chronic kidney disease (opens in a new tab)

medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-22

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    Treat CKD: An Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Integrated Clinical Decision Support Tool for Risk-Based CKD Care in Primary Care

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedInvestigators have developed and validated a clinical decision support tool to improve the diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the point of care.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedCalled Treat CKD, the tool draws on electronic health records data to identify CKD, classify risk by Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes criteria, calculate kidney failure risk using the Kidney Failure Risk Equation, estimate cardiovascular risk using American Heart Association PREVENT equations, and provide recommendations for albuminuria testing, blood pressure management, cholesterol-lowering therapy, cardio-kidney therapies and nephrology referral.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedWhen incorporated into the University of California, San Francisco's system, primary care health care professionals described it as easy to use, clinically relevant and well integrated into workflows without adding substantial workflow burden.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedTreat CKD accurately confirmed Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes–based CKD risk classification and was fully concordant with the manually calculated Kidney Failure Risk Equation and PREVENT risk scores.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe corresponding author said the tool automates CKD identification and risk classification, estimates risk of cardiovascular events and progression to kidney failure, and provides guideline-concordant treatment recommendations for primary care, supporting further evaluation as a scalable CKD detection and treatment strategy.View evidenceHide evidence

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Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) CKD-MBD Update Work Group. KDIGO 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline Update for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD). Kidney Int Suppl. 2017;7:1–59

Kidney International Supplements · 2017 · Crossref

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Current Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Nomenclature used by Kdigo

Kidney International Supplements · 2013 · Crossref

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