Approach to the detection and management of chronic kidney disease: What primary care providers need to know.

OBJECTIVE: To help primary care providers, both family physicians and nurse practitioners, identify, detect, and manage patients with and at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), as well as outline criteria for appropriate referral to nephrology. SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Published guidelines on the topic of CKD and its comorbidities were reviewed. A MEDLINE search was conducted using the MeSH terms chronic renal insufficiency, family practice, …