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US Medicare's success in dialysis move

This article was originally published in Clinica

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Medicare is reporting success in convincing US kidney patients to adopt a safer, higher-quality vascular access to haemodialysis. In the fourth quarter of 2005, some 41% of US kidney patients had a fistula - a connection surgically created by joining a vein and an artery in the forearm - compared to 33% of kidney patients in 2003.

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