Galen eCalcs - Calculator: Creatinine Clearance (MDRD)

Description

This calculator determines creatinine clearance using the MDRD formula recommended by the National Kidney Foundation

Calculator Search/Filter Keywords

At the calculator level, eCalcs comes delivered with default keywords that can be leveraged in the "Search/Filter" field to enable Specialty or System driven calculator searching. The following calculator keywords are delivered by default for the Creatinine Clearance (MDRD) calculator:

Specialties

• Cardiology
• Critical Care
• Family Practice
• Gastroenterology
• Gerontology
• Hematology
• Internal Medicine
• Nephrology
• Oncology
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Surgery
• Toxicology

Systems

• Endocrine
• Lymphatic
• Urinary

Calculator Configuration Options

Preference Name	Valid Range	Description
Publishing	Checked / Unchecked	When checked the calculator will display for users on the front end. When unchecked, the calculator WILL NOT display for users on the front end.
Orderable Item Override	(BLANK) / G-CreMDRD	“(BLANK)” indicates that the global configuration options for Orderable Item will be used. “G-CreMDRD” indicates that the calculator specific value will be used and can display the specific calculator name in the output.

Calculator Inputs

Input	Mapping Type	Description
Sex	Demographics	Patient Sex
Age	Demographics	Patient Age
Ethnicity	Demographics	Patient Ethnicity
Serum Creatinine	Results	Patient's serum creatinine in mg/dL
Traceable to IDMS	Manual Input	This checkbox should be used if your laboratory uses a creatinine method that has been standardized or traceable to IDMS

Calculator Outputs

Output	Mapping Type	Description
CKD-EPI Creatinine eGFR	Result	Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration
MDRD Study eGFR	Result	Glomerular filtration rate calculated using the MDRD formula

References

http://mdrd.com/