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Bridging the gap of referral to nephrology care

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Optimal referral of patients who are at risk of kidney failure to nephrologists could improve their long-term outcomes. Various strategies, including the inclusion of kidney failure risk equations in electronic medical records and the active dissemination of clinical practice guidelines, could help to reduce the gap between optimal referral and what currently happens in clinical practice.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Malaga, Spain

    Nestor Oliva-Damaso

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Navdeep Tangri

  3. Seven Oaks Hospital Chronic Disease Innovation Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Navdeep Tangri

  4. Department of Nephrology–Dialysis–Transplantation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sart Tilman, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

    Pierre Delanaye

  5. Department of Nephrology–Dialysis–Apheresis, Hôpital Universitaire Carémeau, Nîmes, France

    Pierre Delanaye

  6. Department of Medicine, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Richard J. Glassock

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Oliva-Damaso, N., Tangri, N., Delanaye, P. et al. Bridging the gap of referral to nephrology care. Nat Rev Nephrol 19, 275–276 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-023-00693-1

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