What is it about?
Two CKD patients groups were compared: a) those who attended at least one clinic visit during the first year on a national program of renal health care (NRHP-UY), the Nephrocare group (n = 11174), so they were adherent to the multidisciplinary care and b) those who were informed and accepted to be included but had no subsequent data registered after admission (n = 3485) (the Non-adherent group).
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Why is it important?
We observe that adherence to multidisciplinary care was associated with better CKD patients survival. The adherent patients showed better achievement of therapeutic goals (blood pressure and metabolic control), dialysis or transplant requirement (KRT) was more frequent, but usually with a planned start, and the most important observation was that the mortality risk was 33% less and the combined event (death and KRT) risk was 23% less, compared to the Non-adherent group
Perspectives
Multidisciplinary care may improve chronic kidney disease patients' outcome, so it would be importan to extend that care to all population.
Liliana Gadola
Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
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This page is a summary of: Adherence to multidisciplinary care in a prospective chronic kidney disease cohort is associated with better outcomes, PLOS One, October 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266617.
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