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***Standards of Care***

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Published: 27 August 2014
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We are Dialysis Advocates who are keeping this site alive as a reminder of the history of the kidney dialysis field of medicine.  Many of us have spent over two decades advocating for rights of dialysis patients.  If you want to know more about us click the "About Us" link above and you could take a look at this introduction (also below).

And we've put together a list of the kinds of things we would like to see in dialysis:

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***Introduction***

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Hi, my name is Chris and I've been a member of DialysisEthics since 2000 and I helped coordinate the activities of this patient advocacy organization.  This site is being kept up as a reminder of the history of this field of medicine.  For dialysis patients currently with issues and problems, is recommended people contact the folks at Dialysis Advocates.

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Dialysis Facility Tracker

Updated Dec. 22, 2010

By Robin Fields, Al Shaw, and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica, Dec. 22, 2010

This site is for dialysis patients and others who want to learn about the quality of care at individual dialysis clinics. Among other things, you can learn how often patients treated at a facility have been hospitalized, report certain types of infections or are placed on the transplant list. The information is submitted by facilities and collected by contractors of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the federal agency that oversees most dialysis care.

Related story: Dialysis Data, Once Confidential, Shines Light on Clinic Disparities »

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Read more: ***Get the lowdown on your clinic!***

***The Strangest Show on Earth!***

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Written by: Super User
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Published: 27 August 2014
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 Ken Thiry

 Denver-based health-care mogul Kent Thiry runs DaVita, his multibillion-dollar kidney dialysis company, unlike anything the buttoned-down corporate world has ever seen. Are his carnival-like theatrics a stroke of genius, or are they designed to distract people from the hard truths about his business?

Read more: ***The Strangest Show on Earth!***

***NonProfit vs. for-profit***

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Published: 27 August 2014
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New Study Shows Higher Mortality Risk at For-Profit Dialysis Chains

 


by Robin Fields
ProPublica, Dec. 9, 2010, 2:03 p.m.

5:01 p.m.: This post has been updated.

Patients treated at dialysis clinics run by the largest U.S. for-profit chains have a higher risk of death than patients treated by the biggest nonprofit chain, a study released today in the journal Health Services Research concludes.

The outcome gaps are substantial: Patients at the largest for-profit chain were found to have a 19 percent higher risk of death than patients receiving care at the nonprofit; at the second-largest chain, the risk was 24 percent higher.

Read more: ***NonProfit vs. for-profit***

  1. ***Kidney Dialysis - a troubled industry***
  2. ***About Patients or Profits?***
  3. ***USA Today article - Kidney Dialysis***
  4. ***Pump Speeds and Mortality***

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