Revision of end-stage renal disease BN

[jcase (James T. Case)]

All,

Please review and provide your comments on the briefing note related to the proposed inactivation of “end-stage renal disease”. The note is on the Breifing note forum page:

Inactivation of the outdated 'end-stage renal disease' concepts to align with Chronic Kidney Disease staging

Briefing Note Purpose The proposed change addresses an issue in SNOMED CT related to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) staging. The classification of CKD has evolved since the 2002 publication of the Glomerular filtration rate-based staging system. The problem stems from the following two concepts and their subconcepts. 46177005 |End-stage renal disease (disorder)|: Existed in SNOMED CT since 2002, originating from older READ codes derived from ICD-9, predating formal CKD staging. 433146000 |C…