Trends in Quality of Care for Patients with CKD in the United States

Improving the quality of CKD care has important public health implications to delay disease progression and prevent ESKD. National trends of the quality of CKD care are not well established. Furthermore, it is unknown whether gaps in quality of care are due to lack of physician awareness of CKD status of patients or other factors.We performed a national, serial, cross-sectional study of visits to office-based ambulatory care practices for adults...