Kidney Care Community News

BOSTON — The National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings opened its 75th annual event with a clear message: Enhance patient care by advancing awareness.

While patient care technicians play a key role in dialysis, there may be a disconnect between their efforts and the recognition they receive, according to researchers.

The National Kidney Foundation published a consensus document that advocates transition to race-free eGFR equations in health-related decision-making.

Greater access to community health centers may improve outcomes for Medicaid recipients and adults without insurance who have end-stage kidney disease, data show. Amid systematic barriers in health care, “nephrology is unique in that U.S. federal health insurance, Medicare, covers most patients with ESKD irrespective of age or income,” Yoshio N. Hall, MD, MS, academic professor of medicine in nephrology at the University of Washington Kidney Research Institute in Seattle, told Healio. “However, this near-universal coverage does not extend to patients with non-dialysis-dependent kidney disease. As such, most nephrology practices in the U.S. continue to focus their care on patients who require maintenance dialysis."

SAN DIEGO — ChatGPT 4.0 partly avoided discriminatory decision-making for patients with kidney disease, but had gaps in diversity, equity and inclusion, data show.

SAN DIEGO — Increasing diversity and addressing gender and racial gaps among nephrology fellows requires immediate action, researchers said at ASN Kidney Week.

The Kidney Transplant Collaborative expressed disappointment at the delayed CMS launch of the Increasing Organ Transplant Access model, according to a press release from the organization.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Jeffrey Silberzweig, MD, FACP, FASN, discusses the work the American Society of Nephrology’s Emergency Partnership Initiative is doing to respond to major health emergencies.

SAN DIEGO — Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, FASN, will become the next president of American Society of Nephrology, according to a press release.