CMS Wants YOUR Ideas for Improving Transplant and Dialysis by Feb. 1

Medicare wants ideas that will empower people; improve home dialysis safety; reduce care disparities by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and income; increase the numbers of organs for transplant, and much more. Submit your comments here. Learn more here: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/cms-considers-comprehensive-changes-to-5492648/

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• Permission to Thrive – Part 1: Introduction
  01/13 – April McGraw, RN, CNN
• Chronic Pain: Might People on Dialysis Benefit from Dr. Francomano's 5% Strategy?
  01/06 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• In Case You Missed Them: 2021 Blogs by Dialyzors & Care Partners
  12/23 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• Putting the Pieces Together: Our Evolving Teamwork
  12/16 – Philip Martin

Pipeline Technology

• Gel Increases Success Rate of AVF Development

Home Dialysis in the News

• MDoc Launches Home Care Platform for PD in Korea

Living Well with Home Treatments

• PD Predictor of Maintaining Employment During Dialysis
• Inadequate Fluid Management Predicts PD Technique Failure

Industry Updates

• Dialyze Direct Expands

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• PD and Home HD in the U.S. vs. Canada
• Wound Vac Use Helpful for 7 Days After PD Catheter Placement
• Incremental PD with Residual Kidney Function: Safe and Effective
• Can Urgent PD Starts Use Incremental PD?
• Cost of the Quanta SC+ in the UK
• Plastic vs. Metal Hemodialysis Needles: An International Nurse Survey

Featured Link: Home Dialysis Central – Professional Tools

Where can you find the MATCH-D, UFR-calculator, Medicare Start Date calculator, My Dialysis Choice decision aid, PATH-D tools, Buttonhole videos and more all in the same page? Right here!