Patients with acute kidney injury requiring outpatient dialysis after hospital discharge receive the same care as those with the more common end-stage kidney disease, according to a study led by UC ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The value of patient care technicians is not always reflected in job policy or structure. Patient care ...

In the past several years, patients’ experience of care has garnered significant attention within hospitals and health systems and is now increasing in importance and visibility within the dialysis ...

As the ESRD population grows, many providers try a more pampering approach to patient care. A mural featuring a sun-dappled lake, crimson and azure birds, lush flowers, and palm trees adorns one ...

As we head into the colder months of the winter season, some groups – including people with chronic diseases around the country – can be impacted greatly in inclement weather. Vivian Hamilton is one ...

Marquis Health Consulting Services has made a name for itself delivering skilled nursing speciality services developed in partnership with hospitals up and down the Eastern seaboard. But a new ...

In one recent study, the challenging regimen added 77 days of life after three years. Often, kidney disease can be managed in other ways. By Paula Span Even before Georgia Outlaw met her new ...

Whether dialysis is the best option for kidney failure and, if so, when to start, may deserve more careful consideration, according to a new study. For older adults who were not healthy enough for a ...

Dialysis facilities with higher patient-to-technician ratios have worse patient outcomes, such as early death and hospitalization. Understaffing of hemodialysis patient care technicians is associated ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was during some of the darkest days of the pandemic — November 2020 — when Melissa Lawson, then 36, was helicoptered from an emergency room in Santa Rosa, Calif., to a hospital here ...