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BOSTON — In a review of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes recommendations, a speaker discussed the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative commentary on the updated guidelines here.

BOSTON — While experts have shared varying advice about eating during dialysis, there are not enough data to resolve this controversy, according to a presenter at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

BOSTON — Top health equity categories in kidney care include racism and disparities in chronic kidney disease care and kidney transplant care, according to a speaker here who said these can also be addressed with individual strategies.

In this video, Leah Foster Smith, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, CNN-NP, FNKF, discusses an advanced practitioner and physician assistant pathway project she presented at the Renal Physicians Association Annual Meeting.

Pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease and public health insurance were less likely to report visits to a physician and emergency room than those with private insurance, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

In this video, Andy Howard, MD, talks about the potential opportunities for nephrologists in the newly developed value-based payment model demonstrations offered by the CMS Innovation Center.

In this video, Timothy Pflederer, MD, president of the Renal Physicians Association, spoke about the payment cuts some vascular specialists will face when treating Medicare patients for access complications.

The American Kidney Fund released its annual 2022 Living Donor Protection Report Card with updated grades for each state in the U.S. on its protection for living organ donors, calling for federal protection for all donors.

DALLAS — After uncertainty a year ago from a leadership void at HHS, nephrology practices and kidney research are seeing benefits from recent legislative and regulatory victories, according to a speaker at the Renal Physicians Association Annual Meeting.

The American Nephrology Nurses Association is criticizing a position paper released by a kidney community advocacy group that is proposing non-nursing personnel and dialysis manufacturers provide home dialysis training.