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How Do They Know You Are Okay? Measuring Quality of Care in Dialysis
This is a tough topic, but a necessary one to understand how the dialysis
providers measure the quality of your care. Vincent Dennis, MD explains the
proposed quality measures (anemia, bone and mineral metabolism, dialysis
adequacy and infection) that are monitored carefully and overseen by Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. It is important that people with kidney disease
understand that when a measure is set, it becomes the target for the healthcare
provider and patients can suffer if they get it wrong.
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With your Hosts...
Stephen Furst
got his big break into movies in
"Animal House," in which he played Flounder. Stephen has also
starred as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in "St. Elsewhere" and as Vir Cotto in "Babylon5." He is
a successful television and movie producer/director and a kidney patient.
Lori
Hartwell is the author of Chronically Happy - Joyful Living in
Spite of Chronic Illness, and President/Founder of Renal Support Network.
A kidney patient since the age of two, she has consistently strived to
instill hope into the lives of people who live with chronic kidney disease.
Posted June 15th, 2010
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