National AV Fistula Rate Reaches 54.4% in November 2009

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Patients

Welcome to the Fistula First website.  You're about to begin a journey toward living a good life with kidney failure.  Along your way, you'll make choices about your care, like which type of vascular access to use if you choose hemodialysis.  This website can help you make a wise choice.

 

Where do I start?

 

FFBI Clinical Consultants

Jay Wish, MD
University Hospitals Case Medical Center 
Cleveland, OH
 

Michael Lilly, MD
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
 

 

Healthcare professionals

Healthcare Professionals

Welcome to the Fistula First website.  This website contains information on best practices and tools and resources you can use to help you increase your AV fistula rates.  If you need a starting point that includes a variety of information for a particular specialty, click on the links below.  You can also go directly to tools, literature and other sections of interest.

Where do I start?

 

CMS Representatives

Theresa Casey , RD, LD
Government Task Leader
Baltimore, MD

 

Edwin Huff, PhD
Project Officer
Baltimore, MD

 

 

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