Prescribing quality in secondary care patients with different stages of chronic kidney disease: a retrospective study in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Insight in the prescribing quality for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in secondary care is limited. The aim of this study is to assess the prescribing quality in secondary care patients with CKD stages 3-5 and possible differences in quality between CKD stages.

Design

This was a retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Data were collected at two university (n=569 and n=845) and one non-university nephrology outpatient clinic (n=1718) in the Netherlands.

Participants

Between March 2015 and August 2016, data were collected from patients with stages 3a-5 CKD seen at the clinics. Blood pressure measurements, laboratory measurements and prescription data were extracted from medical records. For each prescribing quality indicator, patients with inco

SUBMITTER: Smits KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661701 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature