Chronic kidney disease and automatic reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate: revised recommendations

Adam, William R

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01698.x

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To the Editor: The revised recommendations of the Australasian Creatinine Consensus Working Group1 are improved with the recognition of an age-related reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), but don’t deal with a number of other significant problems associated with an estimated GFR (eGFR).

School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne, Shepparton, VIC.

Correspondence: wadam@unimelb.edu.au

1. Mathew TH, Johnson DW, Jones GRD, on behalf of the Australasian Creatinine Consensus Working Group. Chronic kidney disease and automatic reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate: revised recommendations. Med J Aust 2007; 187: 459-463. <MJA full text>
2. Poggio ED, Wang X, Greene T, et al. Performance of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and Cockcroft–Gault equations in the estimation of GFR in health and in chronic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol 2005; 16: 459-466.

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