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Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: Executive summary and glossary from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference

Year: 2020

Type: editorial

Abstract: A primary obligation of medical journals is the responsible, professional, and expeditious delivery of knowledge from researchers and practitioners to the wider community [1]. The task of journal editors, therefore, rests not merely in selecting what to publish, but in large measure judging how it can best be communicated. The challenge of improving descriptions of kidney function and disease in medical publishing was the impetus for a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference held in June 2019. The conference goals included standardizing and refining kidney-related nomenclature used in English-language scientific articles and developing a glossary that can be used by journals […].

Source: Journal of Renal Care

DOI: 10.1111/jorc.12341

Authors: Andrew S. Levey, Kai‐Uwe Eckardt, Nijsje M. Dorman, Stacy L. Christiansen, Michael Cheung, Michel Jadoul, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer

Institutions: Tufts Medical Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, American Medical Association, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, UCLouvain, Baylor College of Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes

Subfield: Nephrology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3048021615

Cites: 2

Cited by: 3

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