Implementing the Kidney Disease

Implementing a Disease Management Program For Chronic Kidney Disease

Obesity and Kidney Disease

The rise in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and an increase in the prevalence of obesity in parallel in the recent years is a great concern. CKD increases the rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and development of end-stage renal disease, and leads to premature death. Although no direct causality link between obesity and CKD can yet be established, this appears highly probable. ...

Averting the legacy of kidney disease-focus on childhood

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being rela...

The cost of implementing UK guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health problem. In the UK, guidelines have been developed to facilitate case identification and management. Our aim was to estimate the annualized cost of implementation of the guidelines on newly identified CKD cases. METHODS We interrogated the New Opportunities for Early Renal Intervention by Computerised Assessment (NEOERICA) datab...

Study on the Impact of Implementing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) at Hasheminejad Kidney Center

Background and Objectives: As with most countries, in the developing communities, providing high quality services in the field of health care is affected by limited financial resources. Applying the positive stimuli germane to the private sector to public hospital may be one solution to the public sector's problems, and the health care system, in general, for reducing hospital construction and ...