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ESRD Web Related Links

• Government Agencies and Related Links
• Renal Related Organizations
• General Information
• Diabetes Websites
• ESRD Calculator
• Articles

Government Agencies and Related Links

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• CDC Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report
• Federal Register
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• CMS ESRD Information Resources
• FistulaFirst
• "Medicare and You"
• "Your Medicare Rights and Protections"
• National Center for Infectious Diseases
• National Institute of Diabetes &Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (HKUDIC)
• National Kidney Disease Education Program
• United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
• United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
• MedPAC
• Women in Government, Chronic Kidney Disease Policy Resource Center
• "Availability of Quality of Care Data in the Medicare End Stage Renal Disease Program" (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, November 2006)
• "Bundling Medicare's Payment for Drugs with Payment for All ESRD Services Would Promote Efficiency and Clinical Flexibility" (Highlights of GAO-08-77, a report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, November 2006)

Renal Related Organizations

• American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)
• American Kidney Fund (AKF)
• American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA)
• National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
• National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA)
• Kidney Patient News
• Kidney End-of-Life Coalition
• Kidney & Urology Foundation of America, Inc.
• Medical Education Institute
• Renal Physicians' Association (RPA)
• Vascular Access Society
• LORAC - Life Options Rehabilitation Program
• LORAC - Life Options Booklet: Employment: A Kidney Patient's Guide to Working and Paying for Treatment (PDF)
• Kidney School
• Home Dialysis Central
• Nephrology Analytical Services
• "Management of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults" (an educational tool from the National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Learning System)
• International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS)
  

General Information

• ESRD Network Program Overview
• "New Findings from the Dialysis Outcomes & Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)" - Presented by Friedrich K. Port, MD, MS, FACP, and Ronald L. Pisoni, PhD, MS, at the 2004 CMS/Forum of ESRD Networks' Annual Meeting on March 23, 2004. Posted with permission from the authors.
• Medical Records Model
  (in PDF format)
• JCAHO Emergency Planning Guide
• Certificate of Need (June 2004)
• National Patient Safety Foundaion
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• RenalNet Kidney Information Clearinghouse
• Hypertension, Dialysis, & Clinical Nephrology
• The Nephron Information Center
• MEDLINEplus Health Information: Kidney Failure and Dialysis
• Nephroworld
• National Quality Forum
  Consensus Report: "A Comprehensive Framework for Hospital Care Performance Evaluation" (Executive Summary)
  Consensus Report: "Safe Practices for Better Healthcare" (Executive Summary)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  Promoting Excellence : End-Stage Renal Disease Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
• RenalWeb
• Journal of Palliative Medicine
• 2006 Dialysis of Drugs Guide
  

Diabetes Websites

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Diabetes Public Health Resource
• American Diabetes Association
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
  

Articles

• "Normalization of Hemoglobin Level in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Anemia" (New England Journal of Medicine, November 16, 2006)
• "Correction of Anemia with Epoetin Alfa in Chronic Kidney Disease" (New England Journal of Medicine, November 16, 2006)
• "Correction of Anemia - Payoffs and Problems" (New England Journal of Medicine, November 16, 2006)

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This material was prepared by IPRO, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for New York State, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.