Change in appropriate referrals to nephrologists after the introduction of automatic reporting of the estimated glomerular filtration rate.

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Published in CMAJ on February 13, 2012

Authors

Ayub Akbari1, Jeremy Grimshaw, Dawn Stacey, William Hogg, Tim Ramsay, Marcella Cheng-Fitzpatrick, Peter Magner, Robert Bell, Jolanta Karpinski

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. aakbari@ottawahospital.on.ca

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