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Clinical Evidence is one of the world's most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care.

Editorial

In recent years, estimates of glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) have been used as part of an international classification system to stage people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Increasingly, eGFR is being automatically calculated alongside routine clinical chemistry, and often the corresponding CKD stage will be reported too. The widespread reporting of eGFR has had the impact of a selective screening program for CKD, but has its use in this way been validated? As Catherine Clase outlines in this month's editorial, while eGFR has an important role in identifying people with early-stage kidney disease, eGFR as a screening tool has a number of limitations.

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Consultancy reviews

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Smoking cessation

We present a new review on an evidence-based approach to Smoking cessation.

Managing HIV infection

View our systematic reviews on the challenges of managing HIV/AIDS in resource-poor settings.