RESOURCES
Disclaimer: Most sites on this page are non-profit renal related organizations or government agencies. There are a number of commercial renal-related sites on the Web (i.e., pharmaceutical companies, renal related magazines, dialysis corporations, etc.) that can be found using most search engines.
FREQUENTLY USED LINKS:
RPA's Revised Clinical Practice Guideline: Shared Decision-Making in the Appropriate Initiation of and Withdrawal from Dialysis, 2nd Edition (October 2010)
Patient Safety - Keeping Kidney Patients Safe
Dialysis
Kidney Transplant
Disaster Planning: General Information
Disaster Planning: Network Information
KCER Dialysis Patient Identification Card
Medical Record Model
Summary Report of the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks' Annual Reports
USRDS
ESRD Surveyor Measures Assessment Tool (MAT), version 1.5
| Government Agencies & Related Links |
Renal-Related Organizations |
General Information |
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| Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) |
National Kidney Foundation (NKF) |
National Patient Safety Foundation |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Renal Physicians' Association (RPA) |
Institute for Healthcare Improvement |
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Federal Register
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American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)
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Certificate of Need (June 2004) |
CMS ESRD Information Resources
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American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA) |
RenalNet Kidney Information Clearinghouse
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| Physician Fee Schedule |
American Kidney Fund (AKF)
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Hypertension, Dialysis, & Clinical Nephrology
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"Medicare and You"
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National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA)
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The Nephron Information Center |
| “Your Medicare Rights and Protections” |
Kidney Patient News |
MEDLINEplus Health Information: Kidney Failure and Dialysis
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National Center for Infectious Diseases
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Kidney End-of-Life Coalition |
RenalWeb |
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National Institute of Diabetes &Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (HKUDIC)
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Kidney & Urology Foundation of America, Inc.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Diabetes Public Health Resource |
| National Kidney Disease Education Program |
Medical Education Institute
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Diabetes Monitor Magazine |
| Thomas (Search engine for Federal legislation maintained by the Library of Congress.) |
Vascular Access Society |
Diabetes Prevention Program |
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United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
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LORAC - Life Options Rehabilitation Program |
American Diabetes Association
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United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
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LORAC - Life Options Booklet: Employment: A Kidney Patient's Guide to Working and Paying for Treatment (PDF) |
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International |
| MedPAC |
Kidney School
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| Women in Government, Chronic Kidney Disease Policy Resource Center |
Home Dialysis Central |
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CDC Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report
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Chronic Disease Research Group (formerly Nephrology Analytical Services) |
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| "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) |
"Management of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults" (an educational tool from the National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Learning System) |
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| "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) |
International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS)
Fistula First
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| Committee on Ways & Means' Hearing on Patient Safety And Quality Issues in End Stage Renal Disease Treatment (December 6, 2006) |
Dialysis Patient Citizens |
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