Optimal referral of patients who are at risk of kidney failure to nephrologists could improve their long-term outcomes. Various strategies, including the inclusion of kidney failure risk equations in electronic medical records and the active dissemination of clinical practice guidelines, could help to reduce the gap between optimal referral and what currently happens in clinical practice.
- Nestor Oliva-Damaso
- Navdeep Tangri
- Richard J. Glassock