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A patient’s social determinants of health will influence access to chronic kidney disease screening and diagnosis and treatment of CKD, researchers reported here.
“Clinical guidelines suggest regular chronic kidney disease (CKD) screening after diagnosis of hypertension (HTN) or type 2 diabetes (T2DM), as both are risk factors,” Marybeth Ingle, PhD, MPH, and colleagues wrote. “Monitoring of kidney function allows for early detection of CKD and can improve quality of life.”
However, routine care can be impacted by social determinants of health (SDOH), and SDOH can limit access to CKD screening. “We explore how SDOH factors from electronic health records (EHR) predict CKD screening and CKD development among newly diagnosed HTN and/or T2DM patients,” Ingle and colleagues wrote.