Community poverty impacts pre-dialysis care

Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 16:14 in Health & Medicine

The wealth or poverty of kidney disease patients' communities impacts the quality of care patients receive before starting dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results suggest that medical professionals need to improve care for patients who have not yet started dialysis.

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