About the Kidney Score Awareness Campaign
As part of its strategic focus, Mercy Regional and Flint Hills Kidney Services is undertaking a local awareness and education initiative to make the Kidney Score test as common as all of the other baseline health indicators.
Kidney Score is the best test to measure the level of kidney function and determine stages of kidney disease before later stages of CKD occur. Physicians can calculate this number from the results of blood creatinine test, age, race, gender and other factors. Kidney Score is then used to determine how far along a patient is in the five stages of CKD, according to the National Kidney Foundation guidelines. The earlier kidney disease is detected, the better the chance of slowing or stopping its progression.
This initiative will seek to educate health care professionals, media and the general public about a basic test that is essential to determining kidney disease. Key elements to the initiative will be:
- A mass-media campaign to increase awareness of Kidney Score among the general public, including those individuals most at risk.
- A local campaign aimed at physicians and other health professionals, illuminating the need for Kidney Score testing.
- Creation of materials, including educational brochures and posters for medical offices and clinics, to help physicians and health professionals recognize irregular Kidney Score test results.
- A local public relations and media relations campaign to create increased awareness of Kidney Score testing.