Efforts to Increase Living Donor Kidney Donations and General Transplants
According to the National Kidney Foundation, there are more than 100,000 patients currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the United States. Of those, only 17…
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Reducing Hospitalizations among Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is often considered superior to in-center hemodialysis (HD) in terms of a number of clinical outcomes (e.g., preservation of residual renal function)…
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24 Hours in the Life of a Nephrologist
For practicing nephrologists, time often does not feel like their own. Between driving to multiple clinics each day, rounding on sometimes more than 30 patients,…
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4 Initiatives to Support Progression in the Nephrology Industry
Health care is rapidly evolving toward delivering high-quality services at lower costs (value-based services). For nephrology practices to survive this new era, we must identify…
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Study: Impact of PEAK Methodology on Interdialytic Weight Gain: A Multi-Center Experience
Hemodialysis patients who experience larger interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) are at higher risk of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality and diastolic dysfunction (which may directly reduce…
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Addressing Diabetes Complications to Help Reduce Amputations
Adapted from the DaVita Clinical Education and Training Team’s continuing education offering, Taking the Amputations Out of Diabetes, by Donna Swartzendruber, MSN, RN, CNN. Anyone…
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Preparing for Success with Urgent-Start Peritoneal Dialysis
More than half of patients who progress to end stage renal disease (ESRD) do not have a distinct plan for treatment at the time of…
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Holiday Diet Tips to Share with Your Kidney Patients
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and New Year’s Day: These holidays and others tend to revolve around traditions that include food, which can pose a…
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Podcast: Improving Medication Adherence in Dialysis Patients
Dialysis patients who don’t take their medications as prescribed may potentially experience additional complications with their health, more-frequent hospitalizations and even a higher mortality rate….
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Story: A Nephrologist Who Put Community First during Hurricane Michael
As we continue to recover from Hurricane Michael across the panhandle of Florida, I want to share a story of a physician who represents the…
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