News from Arbor Research
January 2016
DOPPS Practice Monitor: quality of life data now available 

The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) Practice Monitor (DPM) reports timely data on U.S. hemodialysis practices in the form of more than 1,500 regularly updated charts, figures, and data tables. The DPM has been updated with data current through June 2015 and now includes patient-reported quality of life data.

Other highlights include Mircera uptake, Medicare claims data updated through 2014, and HbA1c distributions and testing frequency.
  

New Video
Doug Fuller discusses international anemia trends
For many years, dialysis patients in the United States were treated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) at a much higher rate than patients in Europe and Japan. Sweeping changes to U.S. policies were expected to reduce ESA utilization and hemoglobin levels.

Arbor Research authors recently examined international trends in ESA dose and hemoglobin levels in the paper "International Comparisons to Assess Effects of Payment and Regulatory Changes in the United States on Anemia Practice in Patients on Hemodialysis: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study," e-published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Doug Fuller, lead author, recorded a video discussing the results of this paper.
 
Arbor Research in the News
USRDS report shows fewer deaths, increased use of home dialysis
 
In partnership with the University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, Arbor Research released the United States Renal Data System annual data report. This report reveals both positive and negative trends in kidney disease in the United States.
List of Best Papers Includes Paper by Arbor Research Investigator
"Historical Matching Strategies in Kidney Paired Donation: The 7-Year Evolution of a Web-Based Virtual Matching System," a paper co-authored by Alan Leichtman, was selected as one of the American Journal of Transplantation's best papers of 2015.

This was one of two papers that Leichtman co-authored on kidney paired donation in the October issue of AJT.
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