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. 2021 Jul;10(3):e001085.
doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001085.

Improving the diagnostic pathway in patients presenting with acute kidney injury secondary to de novo multiple myeloma: a short report

Ritika Rana  1 , Guy Pratt  2 , Mark Cook  2 , Mark Trehane Drayson  3 , Karthik Ramasamy  4 , Ross Sadler  5 , Doreen Zhu  6 , Thomas Connor  6 , Jennifer Helen Pinney  7
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Improving the diagnostic pathway in patients presenting with acute kidney injury secondary to de novo multiple myeloma: a short report

Ritika Rana et al. BMJ Open Qual. 2021 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: acute kidney injury; clinical audit; delayed diagnosis; quality improvement.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: MTD is a medical advisor to and shareholder in Abingdon Health, which is an immunodiagnostics company. GP is on the medical advisory board for the Binding Site Ltd. The rest of the authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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