Pharmacists propose education standards for those caring for patients with kidney disease

Nephrology pharmacists have proposed education standards based on six main topics for pharmacists caring for kidney patients.
“The Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) initiative aimed to transform kidney care with goals of decreasing the incidence of kidney failure and increasing the number of patients receiving home dialysis or a kidney transplant,” Joanna Q. Hudson, PharmD, from the departments of clinical pharmacy and translational science and medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and colleagues wrote. They added, “To support this

Nephrology pharmacists have proposed education standards based on six main topics for pharmacists caring for kidney patients.
“The Advancing American Kidney Health (AAKH) initiative aimed to transform kidney care with goals of decreasing the incidence of kidney failure and increasing the number of patients receiving home dialysis or a kidney transplant,” Joanna Q. Hudson, PharmD, from the departments of clinical pharmacy and translational science and medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and colleagues wrote. They added, “To support this