Trends in Quality of Care for Patients with CKD in the United States. 2019

Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, and Neil R Powe, and Salomeh Keyhani
Division of Nephrology and.

Improving the quality of CKD care has important public health implications to delay disease progression and prevent ESKD. National trends of the quality of CKD care are not well established. Furthermore, it is unknown whether gaps in quality of care are due to lack of physician awareness of CKD status of patients or other factors. We performed a national, serial, cross-sectional study of visits to office-based ambulatory care practices for adults with diagnosed CKD from the years 2006 to 2014. We assessed the following quality indicators: (1) BP measurement, (2) uncontrolled hypertension, (3) uncontrolled diabetes, (4) angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker use among patients with hypertension, (5) statin use if age ≥50 years old, and (6) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use. Using multivariable linear regression and chi-squared analysis, we examined the change in quality performance over time. Between 2006 and 2014, there were 7099 unweighted visits for patients with CKD representing 186,961,565 weighted visits. There was no difference in the prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension (>130/80 mm Hg) over time (46% in 2006-2008 versus 48% in 2012-2014; P=0.50). There was a high prevalence of uncontrolled diabetes in 2012-2014 (40% for hemoglobin A1c >7%). The prevalence of ACEi/ARB use decreased from 45% in 2006-2008 to 36% in 2012-2014, which did not reach statistical significance (P=0.07). Statin use in patients with CKD who were 50 years or older was low and remained unchanged from 29% in 2006-2008 to 31% in 2012-2014 (P=0.92). In a nationally representative dataset, we found that patients with CKD had a high prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes and a low use of statins that did not improve over time and was not concordant with guidelines.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D011787 Quality of Health Care The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality. Pharmacy Audit,Quality of Care,Quality of Healthcare,Audit, Pharmacy,Care Quality,Health Care Quality,Healthcare Quality,Pharmacy Audits
D003430 Cross-Sectional Studies Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time. Disease Frequency Surveys,Prevalence Studies,Analysis, Cross-Sectional,Cross Sectional Analysis,Cross-Sectional Survey,Surveys, Disease Frequency,Analyses, Cross Sectional,Analyses, Cross-Sectional,Analysis, Cross Sectional,Cross Sectional Analyses,Cross Sectional Studies,Cross Sectional Survey,Cross-Sectional Analyses,Cross-Sectional Analysis,Cross-Sectional Study,Cross-Sectional Surveys,Disease Frequency Survey,Prevalence Study,Studies, Cross-Sectional,Studies, Prevalence,Study, Cross-Sectional,Study, Prevalence,Survey, Cross-Sectional,Survey, Disease Frequency,Surveys, Cross-Sectional
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D000369 Aged, 80 and over Persons 80 years of age and older. Oldest Old
D014481 United States A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D051436 Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Conditions in which the KIDNEYS perform below the normal level for more than three months. Chronic kidney insufficiency is classified by five stages according to the decline in GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE and the degree of kidney damage (as measured by the level of PROTEINURIA). The most severe form is the end-stage renal disease (CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE). (Kidney Foundation: Kidney Disease Outcome Quality Initiative, 2002) Kidney Insufficiency, Chronic,Chronic Kidney Diseases,Chronic Kidney Insufficiency,Chronic Renal Diseases,Chronic Renal Insufficiency,Chronic Kidney Disease,Chronic Kidney Insufficiencies,Chronic Renal Disease,Chronic Renal Insufficiencies,Disease, Chronic Kidney,Disease, Chronic Renal,Diseases, Chronic Kidney,Diseases, Chronic Renal,Kidney Disease, Chronic,Kidney Diseases, Chronic,Kidney Insufficiencies, Chronic,Renal Disease, Chronic,Renal Diseases, Chronic,Renal Insufficiencies, Chronic

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