INTERNATIONAL UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY, cilt.40, sa.3, ss.841-848, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
Background The adverse effects arising from late referral to a nephrologist of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are well known. Retrospectively we examined the initial characteristics of patients referred in various stages of CKD to our nephrology division and tried to identify potential baseline factors associated with subsequent changes in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).