Trends in Quality of Care for Patients with CKD in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Improving the quality of CKD care has important public health implications to delay disease progression and prevent ESKD. National trends of the quality of CKD care are not well established. Furthermore, it is unknown whether gaps in quality of care are due to lack of physician awareness of CKD status of patients or other factors.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We performed a national, serial, cross-sectional study of visits to office-based ambulatory care practices for adults with diagnosed CKD from the years 2006 to 2014. We assessed the following quality indicators: (1) BP measurement, (2) uncontrolled hypertension, (3) uncontrolled diabetes, (4) angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin rec

SUBMITTER: Tummalapalli SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6682807 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature