[HTML][HTML] Improving cancer care for patients with CKD: the need for changes in clinical trials

B Sprangers, MA Perazella, SM Lichtman… - Kidney International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer generally have narrow therapeutic indices
along with potentially serious adverse toxicities. Many cancer drugs are at least partially …

COVID-19 risk factors and mortality outcomes among medicare patients receiving long-term dialysis

S Salerno, JM Messana, GW Gremel… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is a need for studies to evaluate the risk factors for COVID-19 and
mortality among the entire Medicare long-term dialysis population using Medicare claims …

Kidney implications of SARS-CoV2 infection in children

EC Bjornstad, ME Seifert, K Sanderson, DI Feig - Pediatric Nephrology, 2022 - Springer
Research indicates that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2)
infection can impact every organ, and the effects can range from asymptomatic to severe …

Integrating socio-economic vulnerability factors improves neighborhood-scale wastewater-based epidemiology for public health applications

P Saingam, T Jain, A Woicik, B Li, P Candry… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE) of COVID-19 is a low-cost, non-invasive,
and inclusive early warning tool for disease spread. Previously studied WBE focused on …

Medicare Advantage enrollment following the 21st Century Cures Act in adults with end-stage renal disease

KH Nguyen, EG Oh, DJ Meyers… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In January 2021, under the 21st Century Cures Act, Medicare beneficiaries with
end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were permitted to enroll in private Medicare Advantage …

Medicare Advantage enrollment among beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease in the first year of the 21st Century Cures Act

KH Nguyen, EG Oh, DJ Meyers, D Kim, R Mehrotra… - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Before 2021, most Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)
were unable to enroll in private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The 21st Century Cures …

A longitudinal study of convergence between Black and White COVID-19 mortality: A county fixed effects approach

R Lawton, K Zheng, D Zheng, E Huang - The Lancet Regional Health …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Abstract Background Non-Hispanic Black populations have suffered much greater per capita
COVID-19 mortality than White populations. Previous work has shown that rates of Black …

Evaluation of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in initiation of kidney failure treatment during the first 4 months of the COVID-19 pandemic

KH Nguyen, R Thorsness, S Hayes, D Kim… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Persons with kidney failure require treatment (ie, dialysis or transplantation) for
survival. The burden of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related disruptions in care …

Disruption of medical care among individuals in the southeastern United States during the COVID-19 pandemic

B Ni, E Gettler, R Stern, HM Munro… - Journal of public …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Widespread disruptions of medical care to mitigate COVID-19 spread and
reduce burden on healthcare systems may have deleterious public health consequences …

Kidney-related research in the United States: a position statement from the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology

R Murray, T Zimmerman, A Agarwal… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Kidney disease is an important US public health problem because it affects over 37 million
Americans, and Medicare expenditures for patients with chronic kidney disease now alone …