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1Renal Services, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, UK and 2University of Leicester School of Medicine, UK
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In 2006, for the first time, UK primary care physicians received financial incentives for recognizing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). At the same time routine reporting of estimated glomerular filtration rate