The increasing prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is placing a growing burden on healthcare systems, which results in considerable economic and environmental challenges. Sustainable CKD care and optimization of patient outcomes requires a new approach to the organization of healthcare systems, in which home monitoring will have a pivotal role.
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The authors’ work is partly funded by the European Union via the PreventCKD EU-project no. 210862678. The authors thank M. Zuurmond for drafting the original submitted version of the figure.
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Josemans, S.H., Lindeboom, L., Gerritsen, K.G.F. et al. Home monitoring of patients with chronic kidney disease. Nat Rev Nephrol 20, 491–492 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-024-00858-6
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