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Johns Hopkins University: Johns Hopkins Health System Adopts Race-Free Kidney Function Equation

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The Johns Hopkins Health System will no longer use a long-standing clinical standard that factors a patient’s race into kidney function tests. The transition to a new standard of evaluating kidney function will specifically eliminate whether a patient is “African American or non-African American” as a modifier to check how well a patient’s kidneys are […]