Vascular Access for Hemodialysis and Value-Based Purchasing for ESRD

J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Feb;28(2):395-397. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2016070769. Epub 2016 Oct 6.

Rajnish Mehrotra¹, Alfred K Cheung^{2

3}, Timothy Meyer⁴, Karl A Nath⁵

¹ Kidney Research Institute and Harborview Medical Center, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; rmehrotr@uw.edu.
² Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
³ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs, Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; and.
⁵ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

No abstract available

Keywords: arteriovenous fistula; arteriovenous graft; hemodialysis; mortality risk; vascular access.

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