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GFR Calculator
Definition and Classification of Chronic Kidney Disease Speaker's Guide
Albuminuria and eGFR: Independent Predictors of Mortality Speaker's Guide
"Your Treatment, Your Choice"
is a patient education program designed to satisfy Medicare's requirements for reimbursement of the MIPPA kidney education benefit.
Access free smartphone apps, speaker guides, clinical action plans, and much more.
Primary Care Strategies for Kidney Disease
How many of your patients with diabetes, hypertension or cardiovascular disease have undiagnosed or early chronic kidney disease?
A new interactive CKD clinical action planner for the primary care health team to:
- Generate a tailored care plan of evidence-based interventions based on CKD stage
- Download complimentary, bilingual patient information to support your plan of care
- Improve outcomes in your patients at risk for CKD or with early CKD
Multidisciplinary Clinical Action Plan
Evaluate and Treat CKD
NKF's popular online Clinical Action Plans have been expanded into multidisciplinary patient care plans for nurses, dietitians, MDs, dialysis technicians and social workers.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
CNSW
Downloadable Clinician Tools:
A Clinical Update on an Alternative Vascular Access for the Catheter-Dependent Hemodialysis Patient
- Frequently Asked Question about GFR Estimates
- HIV and CKD: Understanding GFR in People with HIV
- Cystatin C: What is it's role in determining GFR?
- NEW! “ANTIHYPERTENSIVA: MEHRFACHNUTZEN BEI CHRONISCHER NIERENKRANKHEIT — STADIEN 1- 4” (Antihypertensive Agents: Multiple Benefits in Chronic Kidney Disease — Stages 1ת)
- Anemia in Stages 1-4 and Stage 5 (non dialysis). Treatment algorithm card
- Screening for Microalbuminuria in Patients with Diabetes
- Self-Management, Diabetes and CKD: A Teaching Tool for Diabetes Educators
- Hypertension and Antihypertensive Agents in CKD quick Reference Guide
- Managing Dyslipidemias in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
- Proteinuria Algorithm
Transplant Tools
Managing Your Adult Patients Who Have a Kidney Transplant - Implications for Primary Care
Managing Kidney Transplant Recipients, A Clinical Guide for Nephrology and Transplant Professionals
Chronic Kidney Disease - Mineral and Bone Disorder:
CKD - MBD: A Focus On Vascular Calcification
Managing PTH In CKD-MBD Insights For Dialysis
Best Practices in CKD-MBD: A Focus on Phosphorus
Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD)
Parathyroid Hormone and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism in CKD
The Role of Vitamin D and Vitamin D Receptor Activators in Cardiovascular and Kidney Health
Vascular Dysfunction, Atherosclerosis, and Vascular Calcification: Insights and Implications in CKD
KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Nutrition in Children with CKD:
2008 Update
Guideline Tools:
Food Choices Are Part of...My Health. Tips for Teens With Kidney Disease
Nutritional Management: Children With Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 2 to 5 and 5D
Hepatitis C and Chronic Kidney Disease
Guideline Tools:
Educate Your Dialysis Patients: Teaching Card and Sheet
- Educate Your Dialysis Patients About Anemia (12-10-4750)
A printable page for clinicians to use when teaching dialysis patients about anemia. - What You Need to Know About Anemia and Dialysis (11-10-4751)
An easy-to-understand printable fact sheet informing dialysis patients about why they have anemia and how to manage it. Can be distributed in your office or dialysis setting.
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