Routine screening for pediatric chronic kidney disease is not effective

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 12:43 in Health & Medicine

The routine use of a screening urine dipstick to diagnose chronic kidney disease in healthy children is not a cost-effective test, confirm Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who validated an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendation.

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