Nine-Question Survey Identifies Patients at Risk of Having Chronic Kidney Disease

The Screening for Occult Renal Disease (SCORED) questionnaire, which contains questions about demographic variables and health conditions, but does not require any laboratory test values, might be useful to identify individuals who are highly likely to have underlying chronic kidney disease (CKD).
This screening tool developed by researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York is discussed in an article in the February 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Coauthor Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, MD, at the University of North Carolina told Medscape, "The main message is that CKD is very common; about 1 in 10 people may have it, but don't know they have it. Just asking these simple questions — about yourself if you are a lay person, or, asking your patient, if you are a clinician — will quickly help you determine who has a high chance of having kidney disease."

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