Association of Public Reporting of Medicare Dialysis Facility Quality Ratings With Access to Kidney Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Improving the quality of dialysis care and access to kidney transplantation for patients with end-stage kidney disease is a national clinical and policy priority. The role of dialysis facility quality in increasing access to kidney transplantation is not known.

Objective

To determine whether patient, facility, and kidney transplant waitlisting characteristics are associated with variations in dialysis center quality.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based cohort study is an analysis of US Renal Data System data and Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) data from 2013 to 2018. Participants included all adult (aged ≥18 years) patients in the US Renal Data System beginning long-term dialysis in the US from 2013 to 2017 with follow-up throug

SUBMITTER: Adler JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8463939 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature