Sri Lekha Tummalapalli1,2, Neil R Powe2,3, Salomeh Keyhani2,4. 1. Division of Nephrology and srilekha.tummalapalli@ucsf.edu. 2. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California. 3. Department of Medicine, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; and. 4. Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Hospital, San Francisco, California.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: 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. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: 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. RESULTS: 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). CONCLUSIONS: 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.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: 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. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: 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. RESULTS: 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). CONCLUSIONS: 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.
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