RPA 2006 Annual Meeting: Nephrology Practice in the Information Age   
Part 1: (Robert Provenzano, MD; Janet M. Marchibroda; William E. Haley, MD; Carolyn Hartley; David Kibbe, MD; Michael Germain, MD; Steven Fadem, MD. RPA Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. March 2006.) Provenzano: Year in review. Marchibroda: Using information technology in medical practice. Haley: Implementation of the RPA CKD Toolkit and its Potential Impact on P4R and P4P. Hartley: How to Implement Information Technology in Your Practice. Kibbe, Germain, Fadem: How to Invest IT Without Going Broke.

Part 2: (Susan Price; Lori LeBlanc; Michael Somermeyer, MD; Franklin Maddux, MD; Victor Villagra, MD; Wilson Wang, MD, MPH; Domenic Ruscio, Jennifer Shevchek, Robert Blaser, MD. RPA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD; March, 2006 ) Price, LeBlanc: Overall practice performance. Somermeyer: CKD Outcomes. Maddux: Dialysis Outcomes - Real Time Applications of Information Technology. Villagra: John Dickmeyer Lecture: Integrating Disease Management into Nephrology Care. Wang, Ruscio, Shevcheck: Influencing Lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Blaser: The RPA's advocacy agenda. (Slide/audio and lecture handouts; no transcripts). Free for RPA members.

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Updated: July 03, 2008 (J03)
J03 Pfizer will no longer work directly with for-profit CME companies.
J03 CMS releases 2007 ESRD Clinical Performance Measures report (.pdf)
J01 Medicare proposes changes for dialysis reimbursement.
J01 More on the physician Medicare payment cut battle in the Congress.
J01 FDA may start focusing more on software reliability in medical devices.
J01 Bills pending in Congress would remove Supreme Court shield for medical device manufacturers.
J30 Doctors get temporary reprieve on Medicare cuts.
J30 AMA delegates oppose CMS no pay policy for "preventable" conditions that develop during hospital stay.
J28 Mortality rates similar at for-profit and not-for-profit dialysis chain patients; former use more EPO and IV iron.
J28 Senate fails to take up legislation that would delay Medicare physician fee cut.
J26 Allen Nissenson hired as Chief Medical Officer of DaVita
J25 House Medicare bill and the politics of competitive bidding for medical equipment
J25 House votes to block cut in physician Medicare fees.
J25 Impending Medicare reimbursement cuts may affect delivery of care
J24 Take your meds and have a chance at winning the lottery.
General Advances Emphasis
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Explaining and Correcting PD Underutilization (Madhukar Misra, MD; John Burkart, MD; Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP; Irum Shahab, MD; Martin Schreiber, MD; Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, MBBS; Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP; Martin Schreiber, MD) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
Nursing Home Dialysis: A Primer (Stephen Korbet, MD; Steven Bucher, CPA, MBA) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
International Conference on Dialysis (Various speakers) RRI 2006 (handouts)
RPA 2006 Annual Meeting (Various) RPA 2006
International Conference on Dialysis (Various speakers) RRI 2005 (audiofiles)
RPA 2005 Annual Meeting (Various) RPA 2005

Urinalysis: core curriculum 2008 Am J Kidney Dis (Jun 2008)
Screening for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement Ann Intern Med (Jun 2008)
Managing preexisting diabetes for pregnancy: summary of evidence and consensus recommendations for care Diabet Care (May 2008)
Staging of chronic kidney disease: time for a course correction J Am Soc Nephrol (May 2008)
ACC/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for device-based therapy of cardiac rhythm abnormalities Circulation (May 2008)
Trends in organ donation and transplantation in the United States, 1997-2006 Am J Transplant (Apr 2008)
Effect of the Italian smoking ban on population rates of acute coronary events Circulation (Mar 2008)
The optimal hemoglobin in dialysis patients -- a critical review Semin Dial (Feb 2008)
Primary care-based disease management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) reporting, improves patient outcomes Nephrol Dial Transplant (Feb 2008)
House Passes Major Changes in ESRD Program (King et al) Dial Transplant 10-07
Should the Medicare ESRD Program Pay for Daily Dialysis? An Ethical Analysis (Ananttharaman P, Moss AH) Adv CKD (Jul 07)
Gadolinium use in patients with kidney disease: A cause for concern Semin Dial 05-07
The ESRD uninsured matter (Williams) Adv CKD (02-2007)
Starting a home hemodialysis program (Moran and Kraus) Sem Dial (02-07)
The ESRD uninsured matter (Williams ME). Adv Chronic Kidney Dis (01-07)
Understanding recent haemoglobin trials in CKD: methods and lesson learned from CREATE and CHOIR NDT (02-07)
Major Difficulties the US Nephrologist Faces in Providing Adequate Dialysis (Diaz-Buxo and Crawford-Bonadio) Blood Purification 01-07
International differences in dialysis mortality reflect background general population atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality. (Yoshino et al.) JASN 12-06
Dialysis facility design - Part IV: Color, sound, and materials (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 11-06
Should dialysis patients ever receive warfarin and for what reasons? (Bennett) CJASN 11-06
Dialysis facility design - part III: How to outfit an existing building for use as a dialysis clinic (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 10-06
Dialysis facility design - part II: Minimize costly plan changes (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 09-06
Dialysis facility design - part I: Developing a strategic and financial plan (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 08-06
Lessons for Medicare Part D in the hemodialysis community (Nayeem, Chertow) BMC Nephrology 07-06
Policy, Quality Links
GENERAL
Renal Physicians Assoc
HDCN Topic Pages (KEY)
Cost, QA in CKD, ESRD