New Year’s Eve Poll Results
Happy New Year’s Eve! I found the results of last week’s poll to be surprising…well, I guess I shouldn’t be too shocked to see that Nephrology Fellows won the “hardest working fellow in show business” award, being that…
Mount Rushmore of Nephrology Announced
The readers have spoken and it is time to announce the results of the hypothetical “Mount Rushmore of Nephrology”: the four Nephrology Pioneers whose contributions have mattered most, and deserve to have their imagery preserved forever on a…
IgA Nephropathy Treatment Poll Results
The results of last week’s poll on IgA Nephropathy are in: 90% of individuals correctly identified that the only treatment shown in randomized controlled trials to consistently benefit patients with IgA Nephropathy is ACE-inhibitors and/or ARBs. The response…
DRIVE-ing to the Correct Solution Regarding Anemia Management?
Poll results from last week’s question regarding anemia management in the dialysis patient. Interestingly, there was a fairly strong consensus on this one, with over 75% of individuals electing to give a course of iv iron to the…
Steroids for AIN? Poll Results
Very interesting results from last week’s poll, in which the question asked was essentially, “Do you believe that steroids are effective in the treatment of AIN?” The vote was generally split 50-50; that is, about half of individuals…
Happy Thanksgiving
One of the things I was definitely grateful for at this year’s Thanksgiving table: I’m not on-call and can spend the holiday with my family! Best wishes to those renal fellows working hard on this holiday. Poll Results…
Poll Results & Post-Boards Weariness
First things first: last week’s poll results showed that the majority of individuals were wary of using physician “Pay For Performance” as a strategy towards increasing AV fistula placement rates. Proponents of this strategy (see editorial by Hakim…
General Support for Kidney Allocation Score
Final results of last week’s Poll of the Week: only 13% of individuals said they outright disapproved of the proposed Kidney Allocation Score, the scoring system which has been proposed to replace the current system of determining kidney…
Results of Kidney Biopsy Poll
The results from last week’s Poll of the Week are in, and in general, a majority of individuals (64%) felt that their training programs did a good job of teaching them the art of the renal biopsy, while…
There are bicarbonate doubters amongst you…
Final results of last week’s Renal Fellow Network poll: There seemed to be general agreement that volume expansion with isotonic saline is definitely effective, and many individuals also selected the isotonic saline + N-acetylcysteine combination. Interestingly, only 23%…