Frequency of maintenance hemodialysis patients meeting K/DOQI criteria for serum calcium, phosphorus, calcium phosphorus product and PTH levels; a single institutional experience from Pakistan: a cross sectional study

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: there is a great scarcity of literature in Pakistan investigating the proportion of End Stage Renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) who meet the recommended Kidney Diseases Outcome Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) guidelines for serum Calcium (Ca), Phosphorus (P), Calcium Phosphorus product (Ca X P) and Parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Our study aimed to determine frequencies of patients who met the K/DOQI targets for these minerals at a tertiary care hospital's dialysis unit.

Keywords

• maintenance hemodialysis
• k/doqi criteria
• serum calcium
• frequency
• esrd patients