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Nomenclature for Kidney Function and Disease: Executive Summary and Glossary From a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference.

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Levey, Andrew S Eckardt, Kai-Uwe Dorman, Nijsje M Christiansen, Stacy L Cheung, Michael Jadoul, Michel [UCL] Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C

(eng) A primary obligation of medical journals is the responsible, professional, and expeditious delivery of knowledge from researchers and practitioners to the wider community.1 The task of journal editors, therefore, rests not merely in selecting what to publish, but in large measure judging how it can best be communicated. The challenge of improving descriptions of kidney function and disease in medical publishing was the impetus for a KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) Consensus Conference held in June 2019. The conference goals included standardizing and refining kidney-related nomenclature used in English-language scientific articles and developing a glossary that can be used by journals. [...]

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Éditorial
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2020
Language Anglais
Journal information "Kidney medicine" - Vol. 2, no. 4, p. 373-376 (2020)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Elsevier Inc. ((United States) Cambridge, MA)
e-issn 2590-0595
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSS/IREC/NEFR - Pôle de Néphrologie
UCL - (SLuc) Service de néphrologie
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Bibliographic reference Levey, Andrew S ; Eckardt, Kai-Uwe ; Dorman, Nijsje M ; Christiansen, Stacy L ; Cheung, Michael ; et. al. Nomenclature for Kidney Function and Disease: Executive Summary and Glossary From a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference.. In: Kidney medicine, Vol. 2, no. 4, p. 373-376 (2020)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/242439