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State (Colorado) releases dialysis patient infection rate
« on: December 11, 2011, 07:26:50 AM »
By JOHN NORTON | norton@chieftain.com |

Over a 12-month period, from April 2010, through March 2011, 664 Colorado dialysis patients suffered some form of infection related to their treatment.

 The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released those figures this week in a bulletin that
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Re: State (Colorado) releases dialysis patient infection rate
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2011, 07:31:23 AM »
If someone wants to find out about infection rates etc... at an individual facility, I would highly recommend Propublica's Dialysis Facility Tracker: http://projects.propublica.org/dialysis/
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*2000 and 2003 Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports on the conditions in dialysis

*2007 - Members of DialysisEthics worked for certification of hemodialysis
technicians in Colorado - bill passed

*1999 to present - nonviolent dismissed patients returned to their
clinics or placed in other clinics or hospitals over the years

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Re: State (Colorado) releases dialysis patient infection rate
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2011, 08:58:16 AM »
it is informative to see the break down of what access has the most infection rates and which have the least. I have heard quite a few times that a Fistula was best but I never knew the exact figures.
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