American Society of Diagnostic & Interventional Nephrology<\/a> Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)<\/a> European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)<\/a> European Medicines Agency (EMA)<\/a> Food and Drug Administration (FDA)<\/a> Forum of End Stage Renal Disease Networks<\/a> Home Dialysis Central<\/a> KDQOL-COMPLETE<\/a> Life Options Rehabilitation Program<\/a> MATCH-D<\/a> Medical education institute<\/a> MedlinePlus<\/a> Medscape Nephrology-the Kidney.org<\/a> NeprhoCare-Holiday Dialysis\u00a0<\/a> Peritoneal Dialysis Tool Box \u00a9 2004<\/a> PubMed<\/a> Resource Guide Spanish<\/a>
\nThe American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology was founded in 2000 to promote the proper application of new and existing procedures in the practice of nephrology with the goal of improving the care of nephrology patients.<\/p>\n
\nWe assure health care security for beneficiaries.\u00a0 In serving beneficiaries, we will open our programs to full partnership with the entire health community to improve quality and efficiency in an evolving health care system.<\/p>\n
\nECDC is an EU agency aimed at strengthening Europe’s defences against infectious diseases. The core functions cover a wide spectrum of activities: surveillance, epidemic intelligence, response, scientific advice, microbiology, preparedness, public health training, international relations, health communication, and the scientific journal\u00a0Eurosurveillance<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nEuropean Medicines Agency guarantees the scientific evaluation, supervision & safety monitoring of human & veterinary medicines in the European Union (EU).<\/p>\n
\nWe are a team of 9,000 dedicated public health employees that includes physicians, nurses, consumer safety officers, lawyers, and scientists, with specialties ranging from biomaterials engineering to pharmacology.\u00a0 Decisions made by FDA affect every American every day.<\/p>\n
\nTo support and advocate on behalf of the ESRD Networks and to improve the quality of care to patients with renal disease.<\/p>\n
\nOne-stop source of information and support to raise awareness and use of PD and home hemo therapies.\u00a0 Offers a database of clinics that currently offer home treatments, downloadable descriptions of 5 types of home dialysis, moderated professional and patient message boards, resources and tools (including bibliographies and slides), equipment, a legislative action center, reimbursement FAQs, patient stories, links, and more.<\/p>\n
\nKDQOL COMPLETE will help clinics comply with new CMS regulations to administer the KDQOL-36 survey annually to most adult patients. It was developed by the non-profit Medical Education Institute (MEI) as part of the Life Options Program.<\/p>\n
\nLife Options is a program of research, free research-based materials, and technical assistance dedicated to helping people live long and live well with kidney disease.\u00a0 Download or order information for professionals and patients on the “5 E’s” of renal rehabilitation:\u00a0 Encouragement, Education, Exercise, Employment, and Evaluation.<\/p>\n
\nMethod to assess treatment choices for home dialysis<\/p>\n
\nThe Medical Education Institute (MEI) is a mission-driven, non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to helping people with chronic diseases learn to manage and improve their health.<\/p>\n
\nMedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations.<\/p>\n
\nLibrary of nephrology and clinical resources, journal articles, highlights from key conferences including the American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting (Renal Week).<\/p>\n
\nNehroCare-Holiday Dialysis is a patient travel service offered by Fresenius Medical Care, offering dialysis patients the unique opportunity to visit selected dialysis facilities around the world with the guarantee of Fresenius Medical Care’s high quality technology and superior products.<\/p>\n
\nPatients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) face many challenges when traveling, but these challenges can be minimized by pre-travel education, organization, and planning. ANNA has recently published on their site an article entitled, “Peritoneal Dialysis Travel “Tool Box” which we have made accessible to our readers \u00a9 2004.<\/p>\n
\nA service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960’s and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.<\/p>\n
\nResource guide for use with Hispanic nephrology patients.<\/p>\n