USRDS News

Interview with Eugene Lin, MD, MS, Clinical and Resident Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center, and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy & Management, Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Price School of Public Policy, author of Association Between Nephrologist Ownership of Dialysis Facilities and Clinical Outcomes.

The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG), in partnership with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), is proud to announce the release of the 2022 USRDS Annual Data Report (ADR).

Interview with Sandra Amaral, MD, MHS Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, author of Association Between Dialysis Facility Ownership and Access to the Waiting List and Transplant on Pediatric Patients With End-stage Kidney Disease in the US.

Reference Tables A.4 and A.9 in the 2021 Annual Data Report were found to contain a small number or errors. These errors have now been corrected and the updated tables have been posted.

The ESRD Quarterly Update is live with data through the fourth quarter of 2021.

Interview with Olga Charnaya, MD, MS Pediatric Nephrologist, Johns Hopkins Hospital author of The unfinished journey toward transplant equity: an analysis of racial/ethnic disparities for children after the implementation of the Kidney Allocation.

Interview with Yuzhi, PhD from Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, author of Effects of short-term ambient PM2.5 exposure on cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality among U.S. hemodialysis patients: a retrospective.

Interview with Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, The University of Texas at Austin and author of Initial Home Dialysis Is Increased for Rural Patients by Accessing.

The 2021 USRDS Standard Analysis Files (SAFs) are now available for request. Contact us at usrds@niddk.nih.gov with inquiries.

DESKRIBE is now updated with 2021 ADR data and the ESRD Quarterly Update is live with data through the third quarter of 2021.

Interview with Julie Paik, MD ScD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Faculty, Division of Renal (Kidney) Medicine and Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Research Scientist and Staff Physician, VA Boston Healthcare System, New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center and author of Medication Burden and Prescribing Patterns in Patients on Hemodialysis in the USA, 2013-2017.

The end-stage renal disease (ESRD) Quarterly Update with data through the second quarter of 2021 is now available.

Interview with Nilka Rios Burrows, MPH, MT (ASCP), CKD Initiative Acting Team Lead, CDC Division of Diabetes Translation and author of Sustained Lower Incidence of Diabetes-Related End-Stage Kidney Disease Among American Indians and Alaska Natives, Blacks, and Hispanics in the U.S., 2000-2016.

Interview with John Danziger, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School and author of Associations of Community Water Lead Concentrations with Hemoglobin Concentrations and Erythropoietin-Stimulating Agent Use among Patients with Advanced CKD.