Thirty-seven million Americans have chronic kidney disease. Most of them don’t know it. Not because the tests don’t exist. Because nobody thought to order them.
A nephrologist is calling out the gap: the task force that shapes what doctors screen for has no kidney experts at the table. None. And people are paying for that absence with their health.
Kidney failure is preventable. Kidney expertise belongs on the nation’s preventive care task force | Viewpoint ~ chiefhealthcareexecutive.com