Big Data, Transparency and Accountability
We crave clinical and scientific data, yet we grieve the performance-based data increasingly directed toward us.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Ureteroscopy Use for Stones Increasing
Researchers found increasing use of ureteroscopy and decreasing use of shock wave lithotripsy.
Acute Kidney Injury Linked to ARDS
Critically ill patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome are at 11 times increased risk of acute kidney injury.
Cardiovascular Events Hike CKD Patients’ ESRD Risk
Heart failure, myocardial infarction, or stroke also increase the risk of death prior to ESRD.
Obesity Raises Risk of Delayed Renal Allograft Function
Delayed graft function is 41% more likely in obese than non-obese kidney transplant recipients.
Metformin Use Decreases Risk of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Other oral hypoglycemic agents have no effect on the risk.
Pre-Op Physical Status Predicts Surgical Patients’ AKI Risk
Increasing ASA scores are associated with an increasing likelihood of post-operative acute kidney injury.
Starting on Peritoneal Dialysis May Offer Survival Edge
Highest survival rates found among patients whose initial dialysis modality was PD but where then switched to hemodialysis.
Fracture Risk Varies by Renal Replacement Therapy
Hemodialysis patients are at higher risk than peritoneal dialysis and renal transplant recipients.
Advanced CKD Increases C. Difficile Infection Risk
A nearly 5-fold higher risk of Clostridium difficile infection observed in patients with end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis.
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