Screen-and-treat Program for Chronic Kidney Disease- High Risk Persons

Education program to improve blood pressure control among hypertensive non-diabetic persons. The Screen and Educate arm will recommend using creatinine, cystatin C and albuminuria for screening and risk stratification, followed by guideline-concordant CKD management appropriate for CKD stage. Recommendations are sent to the primary care provider via an electronic note.

This arm adds option of a pharmacist. PCPs randomized to this arm will have the additional option to refer their higher-risk patients to a clinical pharmacist-led CKD management program with education. A primary care clinical pharmacist will schedule a series of appointments with patients found to have confirmed higher-risk CKD (defined as eGFRcreat-cys \<45, or eGFR 45-59 and ACR ≥ 30 mg/g). The pharmacist will follow treatment algorithms recommended by the 2012 KDIGO international CKD guidelines, and designed by a team of internists and nephrologists.