Calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate without the race correction factor: Observations at a large academic medical system

Junyan Shi, Edwin G Lindo, Geoffrey S Baird, Bessie Young, Michael Ryan, J Ashley Jefferson, Rajnish Mehrotra, Patrick C Mathias, Andrew N Hoofnagle

From Science Direct: Changing from MDRD to CKD-EPI_NoRace could lead to a lower referral rate to nephrology. The distributions of creatinine and eGFR calculated with CKD-EPI_NoRace were not meaningfully different in Black and non-Black patients. Read the full article here.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009898121001789