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What follows is a description of how our group of nephrologists transformed the delivery of healthcare to our patient population with chronic kidney disease (CKD) over 8 years. This required significant changes in our mindset and attitudes. The changes primarily involved adopting a highly automated and protocol-driven style of care that was geared toward efficiency without a sacrifice in quality. Our emphasis was delivery of high quality, relevant, evidence-based, patient-centered, multidisciplinary care with enthusiastic and dedicated participation by a broad coalition of involved stakeholders, not only nephrologists, but also internal medicine trainees and faculty, family medicine physicians, the clinical laboratory staff, nurse practitioners, social workers, pharmacists, and dietitians.
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Yee, J., Faber, M.D., Soman, S.S. (2012). Chronic Kidney Disease: Changing the Mean by Changing the Mien . In: Harrington, J., Newman, E. (eds) Great Health Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1198-7_17
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