The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Task Force have developed a calculation for creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that does not use race as a variable, while maintaining the accuracy of the estimate.1 Using race in the eGFR equations is no longer considered an acceptable way to estimate GFR.1 Laboratories are currently changing from the 2009 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) creatinine equation, which factored race into the estimate.1
Having an accurate eGFR result is important for diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), guiding dosing and eligibility for certain drugs, determining timing or frequency of nephrologist visits, and assessing eligibility for kidney transplantation (as a recipient or donor) and when to start dialysis.1