News Release

End-Stage Renal Disease Workgroup Report Now Online

December 3, 2002

Clinicians and researchers working with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) can now access an important palliative care resource online. Promoting Excellence announces the availability of "Completing the Continuum of Nephrology Care - the End-Stage Renal Disease Peer Workgroup Recommendations to the Field" at its Web site. The report presents the methods, findings, recommendations and products of the ESRD Workgroup sponsored by the Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care project.

The workgroup's 44 Recommendations to the Field are addressed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), National Institute of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the nephrology research community, nephrology educators, nephrology certifying boards, dialysis corporations, dialysis units, ESRD networks, ESRD patient advocacy organizations, nephrology health care professionals and public and private funding agencies of research in nephrology. In addition to these recommendations, the ESRD document includes useful products such as a Quality of Life Assessment Instrument, a model policy for Do Not Resuscitate Orders in Dialysis Units and a comprehensive Bibliography on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in Nephrology.

Read the full report

For more information contact Karyn Collins at karyn.collins@mso.umt.edu or 406.243.6668.

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.