ESRD Quality Incentive Program
Quality Incentives for ESRD Care Reimbursing physicians based on the quality of care they provide is not a new idea. In the 1700s B.C. in ancient Babylon, Hammurabi’s Code stated “If a physician operates on a man for…
Quality Incentives for ESRD Care Reimbursing physicians based on the quality of care they provide is not a new idea. In the 1700s B.C. in ancient Babylon, Hammurabi’s Code stated “If a physician operates on a man for…
Time: 11:30 pm Place: Emergency Department (ED) of a public hospital in Mumbai (average attendance ~ 550 patients per day). A weary and teary mother wheels in her daughter ‘Asha’* who is in her early twenties. They have…
The cartoon that graced the cover of the April 1924 edition of Radio News depicted a physician linked to a patient only by sight and sound i.e. the Radio Doctor. The term Telemedicine first appeared in the medical…
As a new pediatric nephrology fellow, my first weeks taking care of patients on hemodialysis were overwhelming. Each of my patients had complex problems and intricate physiology, and I initially learned to focus on the numbers – clearance,…
Having completed four years of medical school, three years of residency, and now a few months away from my completing my training as a nephrology fellow, I experienced a new type of learning – interprofessional education (IPE). IPE…
As a child growing up in India, I have seen several family members performing ritual fasting. Fasting is a ubiquitous religio-cultural practice that is found, in varying forms, across the world. The month-long Ramadan and Buddhist Lent fasts…
Kidney fibrosis is the common final pathway where all forms of kidney diseases converge– whether it is diabetic nephropathy, rapid progressive glomerulonephritis, or chronic allograft nephropathy in transplantation. Once significant irreversible fibrosis or scarring has developed, nephrologists are…
From Gomerblog http://gomerblog.com/2014/05/medical-specialty The multiple-choice question (MCQ) is the workhorse of medical education. All of the major testing stakeholders (National Board of Medical Examiners, American Board of Medical Specialties, etc.) use MCQs to make major promotion and licensing…
What is this? NBLU: Nephrology Business Leadership University Who should apply: US Nephrology Fellows who will be second year in August of 2018 When: August 6th to August 10, 2018 Where: Plano, Texas. How much will this cost: It is…
Jordan Weinstein (UKidney) has done it again. UKidney has assembled a great collection of high impact articles. What I love about UKidney is the organization and the style. If you are interested in learning more about a particular…