The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model provided critical lessons about financial incentives and access to care for future value-based kidney care models, a speaker said during the Annual ...

Research has shown that a kidney transplant improves survival rates and quality of life for the hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage renal disease compared to remaining on dialysis.

A team developed a human iPS cell-derived kidney organoid-based proximal tubule-on-chip -- OPTECs-on-Chip -- that mimics in vivo renal physiology more closely than ever before. This model exhibits ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found 54% of studies had risk for bias due to inadequate population selection. Moreover, 30% of ...

The current kidney care model—focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis—is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney function. The condition, which affects about 10% of the global population, ...

HHS and CMS have finalized a new, mandatory model for kidney transplant coordination across 103 hospitals. The model aims to increase access, address disparities and improve care coordination for ...

In a recent study published in the BMJ, researchers created and validated a model to predict severe acute kidney injury in patients receiving cisplatin using data from various cancer centers. Study: ...

kidneys High-risk patients need to be seen sooner and more frequently in a nephrology clinic. A model based on select clinical variables may identify hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury ...