National Nurses Week 2013: Nurses Share Their EHR Journey
What an exciting time to be a nurse in our nation! During the annual National Nurses Week, we are reminded that nurses in every community are intimately involved in each patient’s journey towards better health and better care now and in the future. Health IT is a tool to help us and our patients in that journey.
Few African Americans receive kidney transplant from live donors
African Americans have seen a decline in live donors over the last 12 years, even as more of them receive kidney transplants, according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Those findings were presented May 8 at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association in San Diego.
In the United States, there was a substantial decrease in mortality rates over time among children and adolescents initiating ESKD treatment with dialysis between 1990 and 2010. Further research is needed to determine the specific factors responsible for this decrease.
RRI Dialysis Times: A Time to Improve Kidney Care & Awareness in Uganda
In Uganda 717,970 people were estimated to have renal disease by the end of 2004 (US Census Bureau). The major causes of kidney disease were hypertension, diabetes mellitus, glomerulonephritis and infections including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) (Kalyesubula R,2010).
Warfarin therapy may delay deterioration in renal function and improve survival of elderly patients with CKD and AF.
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