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Awareness and knowledge among internal medicine house-staff for dose adjustment of commonly used medications in patients with CKD

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Nephrology, January 2017
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Title
Awareness and knowledge among internal medicine house-staff for dose adjustment of commonly used medications in patients with CKD
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BMC Nephrology, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12882-017-0443-7
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Sikander Surana, Neeru Kumar, Amita Vasudeva, Gulvahid Shaikh, Kenar D. Jhaveri, Hitesh Shah, Deepa Malieckal, Joshua Fogel, Gurwinder Sidhu, Sofia Rubinstein

Abstract

Drug dosing errors result in adverse patient outcomes and are more common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). As internists treat the majority of patients with CKD, we study if Internal Medicine house-staff have awareness and knowledge about the correct dosage of commonly used medications for those with CKD. A cross-sectional survey was performed and included 341 participants. The outcomes were the awareness of whether a medication needs dose adjustment in patients with CKD and whether there was knowledge for the level of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) a medication needs to be adjusted. The overall pattern for all post-graduate year (PGY) groups in all medication classes was a lack of awareness and knowledge. For awareness, there were statistically significant increased mean differences for PGY2 and PGY3 as compared to PGY1 for allergy, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and rheumatologic medication classes but not for analgesic, cardiovascular, and neuropsychotropic medication classes. For knowledge, there were statistically significant increased mean differences for PGY2 and PGY3 as compared to PGY1 for allergy, cardiovascular, endocrine, and gastrointestinal, medication classes but not for analgesic, neuropsychotropic, and rheumatologic medication classes. Internal Medicine house-staff across all levels of training demonstrated poor awareness and knowledge for many medication classes in CKD patients. Internal Medicine house-staff should receive more nephrology exposure and formal didactic educational training during residency to better manage complex treatment regimens and prevent medication dosing errors.

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Unknown 42 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 7 17%
Other 6 14%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Student > Master 4 10%
Researcher 4 10%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 8 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 17%
Unspecified 6 14%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 10%
Social Sciences 4 10%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 9 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 August 2017.
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#14,318,931
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#1,228
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#228,427
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#36
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