A Patient-Centered Report--Your Input is Important!

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The University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (UM-KECC)

UM-KECC is preparing a report for CMS that investigates avenues for acquiring the evidence, data, and infrastructure necessary to implement ESRD patient-driven measures, such as patient-reported outcomes (PROs) quality of life; patient centered outcomes (PCOs) and experience of care; and other measures that are patient driven. To complete this report UM-KECC are seeking feedback from the kidney community on the following:

1. What ESRD patient reported outcomes/patient centered outcome measures are meaningful to patients and health care providers?

2. What data may be available to support future development and testing of these measures?

Please send your feedback to dialysisdata@umich.edu by June 30, 2016 to ensure consideration for the report.