An obligation of medical journals is the responsible, professional and expeditious delivery of knowledge from researchers and practitioners to the community. The task of editors, therefore, rests not merely in selecting what to publish, but in judging how it might best be communicated. The challenge of improving descriptions of kidney function and disease in medical publishing was the impetus for a KDIGO consensus conference. The conference goals included standardizing and refining kidney-related nomenclature and developing a glossary to be used by journals.

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肾脏功能和疾病的命名法：KDIGO共识会议的执行摘要。

医学期刊的义务是负责任，专业和迅速地将知识从研究人员和从业人员传递给社区。因此，编辑者的任务不仅在于选择要发表的内容，还在于判断如何最好地进行交流。在医学出版物中改善对肾功能和疾病描述的挑战是KDIGO共识会议的推动力。会议的目标包括标准化和完善与肾脏有关的术语，以及开发供期刊使用的词汇表。