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- Title
Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: Executive summary and glossary from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference.
- Authors
Levey, Andrew S.; Eckardt, Kai‐Uwe; Dorman, Nijsje M.; Christiansen, Stacy L.; Cheung, Michael; Jadoul, Michel; Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C.
- Abstract
The challenge of improving descriptions of kidney function and disease in medical publishing was the impetus for a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference held in June 2019. A coherent, shared nomenclature could improve communication at all levels, to not only foster better appreciation of the burden of disease but also aid understanding of how patients feel about their disease, allow more effective communication between kidney disease specialists and other clinicians, advance more straightforward comparison and integration of datasets, enable better recognition of gaps in knowledge for future research, and facilitate more comprehensive public health policies for acute and chronic kidney disease. The discussion focused on general description of acute and chronic kidney disease and kidney measures, rather than specific kidney diseases and particular measures of function and structure.
- Subjects
KIDNEY diseases; BK virus; DISEASE nomenclature; ACUTE kidney failure; CHRONIC kidney failure; KIDNEY failure; SCIENTIFIC literature
- Publication
Nephrology, 2020, Vol 25, Issue 8, p589
- ISSN
1320-5358
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nep.13744