Multidisciplinary Chronic Kidney Disease Clinic Practices: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multidisciplinary chronic kidney disease (CKD) clinics improve patient outcomes but their optimal design is unclear.

Objective

To perform a scoping review to identify and describe current practices (structure, function) associated with multidisciplinary CKD clinics.

Design

Scoping review.

Setting

Databases included Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane, and CINAHL.

Patients

Patients followed in multidisciplinary CKD clinics globally.

Measurements

Multidisciplinary CKD clinic composition, entry criteria, follow-up, and outcomes.

Methods

We systematically searched the literature to identify randomized controlled trials, non-randomized interventional studies, or observational studies of multidisciplinary CKD clinics defined by an outpatient set

SUBMITTER: Collister D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801876 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature