In Search of a Better Equation - Performance and Equity in Estimates of Kidney Function

Affiliations

¹ From the Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital (J.A.D., A.K.M.), the Department of Biomedical Informatics (J.A.D., A.K.M.) and the Program in Health Sciences and Technology (J.A.D.), Harvard Medical School, and the Division of Nephrology (L.A.I., A.S.L.) and the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (H.T.), Tufts Medical Center - all in Boston; and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - both in San Francisco (N.R.P.).

James A Diao et al. N Engl J Med. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 4;384(5):396-399.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2028243. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

¹ From the Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital (J.A.D., A.K.M.), the Department of Biomedical Informatics (J.A.D., A.K.M.) and the Program in Health Sciences and Technology (J.A.D.), Harvard Medical School, and the Division of Nephrology (L.A.I., A.S.L.) and the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (H.T.), Tufts Medical Center - all in Boston; and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - both in San Francisco (N.R.P.).

No abstract available

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