Low rates of testing and diagnostic codes usage in a commercial clinical laboratory: evidence for lack of physician awareness of chronic kidney disease.

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Published in J Am Soc Nephrol on June 01, 2005

Authors

Lesley A Stevens1, George Fares, James Fleming, David Martin, Kalyani Murthy, Jiejing Qiu, Paul C Stark, Katrin Uhlig, Frederick Van Lente, Andrew S Levey

Author Affiliations

1: Tufts New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, Box 391, Boston, MA 02111, USA. lstevens1@tufts-nemc.org

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