News Features
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
Late Breaking News
- CDC Panel Says Health Workers, Long-Term Care Residents Should Get COVID-19 Vaccine First
Articles from The Hill and STAT. - Can AI Fairly Decide Who Gets an Organ Transplant?
Article from Harvard Business Review.
- Articles in Press Editorials from American Journal of Kidney Diseases:
- Free, Full-Text, Articles in Press from Kidney Medicine:
- Is Covid‐19 Infection More Severe in Kidney Transplant Recipients?
Accepted Article abstract from American Journal of Transplantation. - SARS-CoV-2 in Spent Dialysate from Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis Patients with COVID-19
(15-page pdf) Early Access article from Kidney360 – article abstract - Utilization of CMS Pre-ESRD Kidney Disease Education Services and Its Associations with the Home Dialysis Therapies
OnlineFirst abstract from Peritoneal Dialysis International. - Deceased Donor Chains—It Is Time for Debate and Consensus
Free, full-text, Early View editorial from American Journal of Transplantation. - Doctor: Does Living Kidney Donation Increase My Risk for Cardiovascular Disease?
(5-page pdf) Accepted Article editorial from American Journal of Transplantation – article abstract - Using Electronic AKI Alerts To Define the Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Renal Transplants
Free, full-text, Online First article from Journal of Nephrology. - Excellent Essay on Dialysis Adequacy
Tweet and link from Swapnil Hiremath. - Send Questions to Creator of ‘B Positive’
Tweet from Terrence Terrell. - Free December Issue of Kidney International
Over 30 articles and letters to the editor.
- CMS Press Releases:
- Trump Administration Finalizes Permanent Expansion of Medicare Telehealth Services and Improved Payment for Time Doctors Spend with Patients
- Final Policies for the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) Expanded Model for the Calendar Year 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
- Final Policy, Payment, and Quality Provisions Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2021
- GAO: ‘Urgent’ Actions Needed To Respond to Pandemic
Article from The Hill.
- News Summaries from Kaiser Health News:
- ‘Assume You Were Exposed’: Holiday Infections To Accelerate The Surge
- Record Number Of Americans Are Hospitalized, Overwhelming Capacity
- Who Will Be In First Wave Of COVID Shots? CDC Panel Hashes It Out Today
- How Lightning-Fast COVID Vaccine Has Spawned Contests, Doubts And Scams
- White House Cedes Authority To States To Disperse Limited Vaccine Stores
- State Officials Wait On Biden Administration Pandemic Policies
- Partisan Fault Lines Deeply Divide Americans’ Pandemic Views: Survey
- First Alzheimer’s Blood Test Now On Sale Only With Doctor’s Order
- Secondary bullet
News Headlines
- End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) Model: Achievement Benchmarks for Measurement Year 1 (January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021)
(3-page pdf) CMS document released Nov. 30, 2020. Tweet from Brent Miller. CMS’s ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model web page.
- ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model Introductory Webinar
CMS is conducting an introductory webinar on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m ET. The webinar will provide an overview of the ETC Model, including:- Participant selection
- The Home Dialysis Payment Adjustment
- The Performance Payment Adjustment
- The ETC Model timeline, including the timing of payment adjustments
- Information about how to communicate with CMS about the ETC Model
- ESRD Treatment Choices Model Overview
Article from Nephrology Times. - The COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences for Nephrology
Full-text article from Nature Reviews Nephrology. - The Conclusion from Madrid Is That Home Dialysis Offered No Protection from COVID19 Infection
Tweet from Eric Weinhandl. - In the Era of COVID-19, Organ Transplant Centers Contend with Fear, Uncertainty
Article from San Antonio Express News via LMTonline. - Big Data and Outcomes in Pediatric Hemodialysis: How Can Nephrologists Use These New Tools in Daily Practice?
Free, full-text, Advance Article from NDT. - Join KidneyCure in Transforming Kidney Health, One Researcher at a Time
Article from ASN’s Kidney News Online.
- Free, Full-Text, Advance Articles from Clinical Kidney Journal:
- The unaccomplished mission of reducing mortality in patients on kidney replacement therapy
- European East–West divide in kidney disease: the need to understand the drivers of chronic kidney disease outcomes
- Pro-calcifying analysis of uraemic serum from patients treated with medium cut-off membrane in a prospective, cross-over study
- Free, Open Access Articles from BMC Nephrology:
- Integrating Patient Priorities with Science by Community Engagement in the Kidney Precision Medicine Project
Published Ahead of Print CJASN abstract.
- Accepted Articles Abstracts from American Journal of Transplantation:
- The Relationship of Soluble Klotho Level with Uremic Cardiomyopathy and Ecocardiographic Parameters in Hemodialysis Patients
Early View abstract from Seminars in Dialysis.
- Dietary Habits as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for Chronic Kidney Disease
Posting from the Renal Fellow Network blog. - Mild Electrical Stimulation with Heat Shock Ameliorates Kidney Disease
Press release from Kumamoto University. - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19–Related Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths – A Systematic Review
Free, full-text, Latest Article from Annals of Internal Medicine. - Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review Prepared for the 2020 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/U.S. Department of Defense Guidelines
Abstract from Annals of Internal Medicine.
Health-Related News
- California Nurses Score Huge Win: State Requires Hospitals To Begin Weekly Covid Testing of All Health Care Staff Dec. 14 and Testing of All Patients Now
News release from National Nurses United. - The PPE Crisis Didn’t Go Away: Across the U.S., Grassroots Supply Networks Are Trying To Fill the Void
Article from STAT.
- Articles from Medscape Medical News (registration required):
- Articles from The BMJ:
- Covid-19: What Sweden taught Scandinavia for the second wave
- Infection fatality risk for SARS-CoV-2 in community dwelling population of Spain: nationwide seroepidemiological study
- Covid-19: Infections fell by 30% in England during second lockdown
- Covid-19 has harmed poorest countries the most across Asia Pacific, says OECD
- DeepMind’s Protein-Folding AI Stuns with a Solution to One of Biology’s Biggest Challenges
Article from STAT. - Graphic Medicine—The Best of 2020
Free, full-text, New Online feature from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Medicare-Related News
- MedPAC December 3rd Meeting — Assessing Payment Adequacy and Updating Payments: Outpatient Dialysis Services
(1-page pdf) Agenda for session in December meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. - Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) Becomes Care Compare
Notice from Northwest Renal Network.
| Daily Highlights | |
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Ascend Clinical – Providing accurate, reliable and efficient renal laboratory testing, and much more. |
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Myron L’s D-6™ offers professional, comprehensive water and dialysate quality analysis in the palm of your hand. |
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Better Water, Inc. – The one call to make for water treatment & central delivery systems, portables, products & consumables. |
|
D and D Laboratory – Dialysis water testing made easy. Announcing new ISO Accreditation. |
| See Other Daily Highlights ▶ | |
Dialysis Products & Services
Since January 1999, RenalWEB has been the premier Internet location for information on dialysis-related products and services. Features include:
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Dialysis Care Reform
- The Golden Age of Dialysis Care (2019)
- The Dialysis Machine
by Anne Kim - John Oliver on U.S. Dialysis Care (YouTube video)
- Why U.S. Dialysis Care Has Been Stagnant
- Understanding Tassin
- Nephrologists Can’t Have It Both Ways (2015)
- Ten Issues Nephrologists Do Not Want To Discuss with Dialysis Patients (2014)
- The Missing Half of Excellence in
Dialysis Care 2013) - Human-Centered Care (2013)
- New Views (2008)
News Features
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
Late Breaking News
- CDC Panel Says Health Workers, Long-Term Care Residents Should Get COVID-19 Vaccine First
Articles from The Hill and STAT. - Can AI Fairly Decide Who Gets an Organ Transplant?
Article from Harvard Business Review.
- Articles in Press Editorials from American Journal of Kidney Diseases:
- Free, Full-Text, Articles in Press from Kidney Medicine:
- Is Covid‐19 Infection More Severe in Kidney Transplant Recipients?
Accepted Article abstract from American Journal of Transplantation. - SARS-CoV-2 in Spent Dialysate from Chronic Peritoneal Dialysis Patients with COVID-19
(15-page pdf) Early Access article from Kidney360 – article abstract - Utilization of CMS Pre-ESRD Kidney Disease Education Services and Its Associations with the Home Dialysis Therapies
OnlineFirst abstract from Peritoneal Dialysis International. - Deceased Donor Chains—It Is Time for Debate and Consensus
Free, full-text, Early View editorial from American Journal of Transplantation. - Doctor: Does Living Kidney Donation Increase My Risk for Cardiovascular Disease?
(5-page pdf) Accepted Article editorial from American Journal of Transplantation – article abstract - Using Electronic AKI Alerts To Define the Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Renal Transplants
Free, full-text, Online First article from Journal of Nephrology. - Excellent Essay on Dialysis Adequacy
Tweet and link from Swapnil Hiremath. - Send Questions to Creator of ‘B Positive’
Tweet from Terrence Terrell. - Free December Issue of Kidney International
Over 30 articles and letters to the editor.
- CMS Press Releases:
- Trump Administration Finalizes Permanent Expansion of Medicare Telehealth Services and Improved Payment for Time Doctors Spend with Patients
- Final Policies for the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) Expanded Model for the Calendar Year 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
- Final Policy, Payment, and Quality Provisions Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2021
- GAO: ‘Urgent’ Actions Needed To Respond to Pandemic
Article from The Hill.
- News Summaries from Kaiser Health News:
- ‘Assume You Were Exposed’: Holiday Infections To Accelerate The Surge
- Record Number Of Americans Are Hospitalized, Overwhelming Capacity
- Who Will Be In First Wave Of COVID Shots? CDC Panel Hashes It Out Today
- How Lightning-Fast COVID Vaccine Has Spawned Contests, Doubts And Scams
- White House Cedes Authority To States To Disperse Limited Vaccine Stores
- State Officials Wait On Biden Administration Pandemic Policies
- Partisan Fault Lines Deeply Divide Americans’ Pandemic Views: Survey
- First Alzheimer’s Blood Test Now On Sale Only With Doctor’s Order
- Secondary bullet
News Headlines
- End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) Model: Achievement Benchmarks for Measurement Year 1 (January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021)
(3-page pdf) CMS document released Nov. 30, 2020. Tweet from Brent Miller. CMS’s ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model web page.
- ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model Introductory Webinar
CMS is conducting an introductory webinar on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m ET. The webinar will provide an overview of the ETC Model, including:- Participant selection
- The Home Dialysis Payment Adjustment
- The Performance Payment Adjustment
- The ETC Model timeline, including the timing of payment adjustments
- Information about how to communicate with CMS about the ETC Model
- ESRD Treatment Choices Model Overview
Article from Nephrology Times. - The COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences for Nephrology
Full-text article from Nature Reviews Nephrology. - The Conclusion from Madrid Is That Home Dialysis Offered No Protection from COVID19 Infection
Tweet from Eric Weinhandl. - In the Era of COVID-19, Organ Transplant Centers Contend with Fear, Uncertainty
Article from San Antonio Express News via LMTonline. - Big Data and Outcomes in Pediatric Hemodialysis: How Can Nephrologists Use These New Tools in Daily Practice?
Free, full-text, Advance Article from NDT. - Join KidneyCure in Transforming Kidney Health, One Researcher at a Time
Article from ASN’s Kidney News Online.
- Free, Full-Text, Advance Articles from Clinical Kidney Journal:
- The unaccomplished mission of reducing mortality in patients on kidney replacement therapy
- European East–West divide in kidney disease: the need to understand the drivers of chronic kidney disease outcomes
- Pro-calcifying analysis of uraemic serum from patients treated with medium cut-off membrane in a prospective, cross-over study
- Free, Open Access Articles from BMC Nephrology:
- Integrating Patient Priorities with Science by Community Engagement in the Kidney Precision Medicine Project
Published Ahead of Print CJASN abstract.
- Accepted Articles Abstracts from American Journal of Transplantation:
- The Relationship of Soluble Klotho Level with Uremic Cardiomyopathy and Ecocardiographic Parameters in Hemodialysis Patients
Early View abstract from Seminars in Dialysis.
- Dietary Habits as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for Chronic Kidney Disease
Posting from the Renal Fellow Network blog. - Mild Electrical Stimulation with Heat Shock Ameliorates Kidney Disease
Press release from Kumamoto University. - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19–Related Infections, Hospitalizations, and Deaths – A Systematic Review
Free, full-text, Latest Article from Annals of Internal Medicine. - Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review Prepared for the 2020 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/U.S. Department of Defense Guidelines
Abstract from Annals of Internal Medicine.
Health-Related News
- California Nurses Score Huge Win: State Requires Hospitals To Begin Weekly Covid Testing of All Health Care Staff Dec. 14 and Testing of All Patients Now
News release from National Nurses United. - The PPE Crisis Didn’t Go Away: Across the U.S., Grassroots Supply Networks Are Trying To Fill the Void
Article from STAT.
- Articles from Medscape Medical News (registration required):
- Articles from The BMJ:
- Covid-19: What Sweden taught Scandinavia for the second wave
- Infection fatality risk for SARS-CoV-2 in community dwelling population of Spain: nationwide seroepidemiological study
- Covid-19: Infections fell by 30% in England during second lockdown
- Covid-19 has harmed poorest countries the most across Asia Pacific, says OECD
- DeepMind’s Protein-Folding AI Stuns with a Solution to One of Biology’s Biggest Challenges
Article from STAT. - Graphic Medicine—The Best of 2020
Free, full-text, New Online feature from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Medicare-Related News
- MedPAC December 3rd Meeting — Assessing Payment Adequacy and Updating Payments: Outpatient Dialysis Services
(1-page pdf) Agenda for session in December meeting of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. - Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) Becomes Care Compare
Notice from Northwest Renal Network.
| Daily Highlights | |
|---|---|
|
|
Ascend Clinical – Providing accurate, reliable and efficient renal laboratory testing, and much more. |
|
|
Myron L’s D-6™ offers professional, comprehensive water and dialysate quality analysis in the palm of your hand. |
|
|
Better Water, Inc. – The one call to make for water treatment & central delivery systems, portables, products & consumables. |
|
|
D and D Laboratory – Dialysis water testing made easy. Announcing new ISO Accreditation. |
| See Other Daily Highlights ▶ | |
Dialysis Products & Services
Since January 1999, RenalWEB has been the premier Internet location for information on dialysis-related products and services. Features include:
| View the Latest Feature Ads | |
|---|---|
|
|
Renal Care 360Digital Health Engagement Technology |
|
|
CureMed NordicReplacement Clamp for Catheters |
|
|
Ascend ClinicalLaboratory Services |
|
|
D and D LaboratoryWater Testing |
|
|
NephrosUltrafiltration |
Dialysis Care Reform
- The Golden Age of Dialysis Care (2019)
- The Dialysis Machine
by Anne Kim - John Oliver on U.S. Dialysis Care (YouTube video)
- Why U.S. Dialysis Care Has Been Stagnant
- Understanding Tassin
- Nephrologists Can’t Have It Both Ways (2015)
- Ten Issues Nephrologists Do Not Want To Discuss with Dialysis Patients (2014)
- The Missing Half of Excellence in
Dialysis Care 2013) - Human-Centered Care (2013)
- New Views (2008)