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United States patients who received maintenance dialysis for ESRD and also had frailty experienced significantly worse in-hospital outcomes than patients on dialysis without frailty, according to study results.

Influenza vaccination strategies targeting older adults may not be as effective as previously thought, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found increased vaccination rates did not reduce hospitalizations or mortalities among adults aged 65 years and older.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care are tackling some of the biggest issues in the field — limited resources, reimbursement and burnout — both in the United States and abroad.

Patients with chronic kidney disease who were not given pre-hydration prior to undergoing contrast-enhanced CT experienced outcomes similar to those who were given sodium bicarbonate pre-hydration, according to study results. This led researchers to conclude withholding pre-hydration is safe, as well as cost-effective.

Uninsured patients with ESRD who visited Texas emergency departments for hemodialysis treatments contributed to high hospital costs and increased strain on the health care system, according to an analysis of 2017 statewide hospital data.

Nonprofit hospitals that bring in the highest net incomes provide disproportionately low charity care compared with lower-earning nonprofit hospitals, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

An electronic medical record “nudge” minimized the ordering of inappropriate tests for hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection, or CDI, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

A third of Medicare beneficiaries did not receive home health rehabilitation after being discharged from the intensive care unit, according to research presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Congress.

The novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, is having a global impact, raising concerns about a pandemic.

Patients on maintenance dialysis who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest received similar quality of care, leading to comparable outcomes at discharge, to those not on dialysis, according to a recent study.