Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Timeliness of Nephrology Care for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
- Analytics use case(s): Population-Level-Estimation
- Study type: Clinical Application
- Tags: Chronic Kidney Disease
- Study lead: Tom White, MD, MS, MA, CHIE
- Study lead forums tag: https://forums.ohdsi.org/u/thomas_white
- Study start date: July 13, 2022
- Study end date: -
- Protocol: - IRB Protocol_NCD(timeliness to nephrology care) (1).docx
- Publications: -
- Results explorer: -
Evaluating racial and/or ethnic disparities in the timeliness of nephrology care amongst patients with newly diagnosed CKD. This work will look at time to nephrology follow up once patients are diagnosed with CKD Stage 3 and CKD Stage 4.
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