Web Activity - Coursework Example

Health Sciences and Medicine September 24, #6. The information presented would help a patient find a dialysis center as it shows what type of dialysis they offer, be it peritoneal or in-center, number of dialysis staions they have available, whether they are open after 5 pm, if they are for profit and also if they provide in home hemodialysis training. There are also links to quality comparisons and facility profiles.#8. Quality measures currently reported include percentage of Medicare patients who had an average hemoglobin less than 10.

0 g/dL or greater than 12.0 g/dL in 2010, percentage of Medicare patients who had enough wastes removed from their blood during dialysis (Dialysis Adequacy) in 2010 and patient Survival for January 2007 to December 2010.#9. This information would assist a patient in selecting a dialysis facility by showing you a comparison against all facilities in the United States against those in California with the one that you are looking at. This page also shows you which survival category the patients at the chosen dialysis centers fit into.#10. I would chose West Coast dialysis Center as their survival rate is as expected and this facility had a higher percentage of patients than the others who offered scores and was just under the national average in amount of patients who had enough wastes removed from their blood or had a URR of 65 or more.

This facility also had a higher percentage of patients with hemoglobin over 12, 8%, which is less than the national average of 11% of patients. This is a measure that can be used to show how well anemia is managed that is associated with dialysis.