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Title: State (Colorado) releases dialysis patient infection rate
Post by: cschwab on December 11, 2011, 07:26:50 AM

By JOHN NORTON | norton@chieftain.com |

Over a 12-month period, from April 2010, through March 2011, 664 Colorado dialysis patients suffered some form of infection related to their treatment.

 The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released those figures this week in a bulletin that

Title: Re: State (Colorado) releases dialysis patient infection rate
Post by: cschwab on December 11, 2011, 07:31:23 AM

If someone wants to find out about infection rates etc... at an individual facility, I would highly recommend Propublica's Dialysis Facility Tracker: http://projects.propublica.org/dialysis/

Title: Re: State (Colorado) releases dialysis patient infection rate
Post by: angieskidney on December 13, 2011, 08:58:16 AM

it is informative to see the break down of what access has the most infection rates and which have the least. I have heard quite a few times that a Fistula was best but I never knew the exact figures.