Blown away by rising star @mwschoen's masterful storytelling of how he is trying to understand and eradicate racial disparities in myeloma treatment and outcomes...
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@mwschoen Dr. Schoen walks us through a hypothesis that renal impairment and racial differences in estimating renal function may impact treatment and outcome: 1) Pts with renal dies less likely to receive lenalidomide.
@mwschoen 2) Black veterans have higher creatinine but better GFR... if clinician only looks at creatinine, may err in understanding pts renal function.
@mwschoen 3) Black patients more likely to be coded as having renal disease by ICD9 codes
@mwschoen 4) Black pts less likely to receive lenalidomide
@mwschoen 5) Summary - results lead to hypothesis that higher rates of diagnosis of renal disease based on erroneous interpretation of Creatinine in black patients may mediate racial disparities in treatment
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