Chronic School Absenteeism of Children with Chronic Kidney Disease.

J Pediatr

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Published: August 2018

We evaluated the frequency of chronic school absenteeism (≥18 missed school days per year) among children with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease. Chronic absenteeism was present in 17.3% of children with chronic kidney disease, compared with 2.7% of children in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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