Exam 5: Dialysis

With regard to frequency of reassessment, stable dialysis patients must be reassessed at least ________________.​

Each dialysis patient is assigned to a primary care provider who alone is responsible for the performing a comprehensive assessment and developing a plan of care.

The retention period for clinical information on dialysis patients, according to federal statute, is ten years.

A(n) ____________________________ stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells and is used to treat and prevent anemia, a common complication of chronic kidney disease in patients on dialysis.​

Patients who have kidney transplants generally have lower survival rates, a poorer quality of life, and higher overall medical costs than patients on dialysis.

Organizations that have contracted with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to assess the quality of care rendered to ESRD patients and to collect and analyze ESRD data are known as _________________.​

When a dialysis patient is transferred to another facility, federal regulations require that all requested medical record information be transmitted to the receiving facility within __________.

The Conditions of Coverage require that each dialysis facility implement a data-driven performance improvement program that utilizes indicators or performance measures associated with improved health outcomes and with the identification and reduction of medical errors. This program is known as_______________________________ .

Peritoneal dialysis uses the patient's thoracic cavity to filter out wastes

Which of the following applies with regard to co-morbidity adjustments in the Medicare prospective payment system for dialysis facilities?

_____________________________ is a form of peritoneal dialysis in which the patient is able to dialyze herself three or four times per day without special assistance and a minimum amount of equipment.​

____________________________ is a type of dialysis in which the patient's abdominal cavity is filled with a solution (dialysate), and the semipermeable membrane across which the products diffuse is the patient's own peritoneal membrane. The fluid containing the wastes is later withdrawn from the peritoneal cavity.​

_____________________ is a gradual loss of kidney function classified into five stages, with mild loss of kidney function in the early stages and severe or total loss in the later stages.​

The Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) includes the development of clinical practice guidelines; CMS has incorporated some of the outcome measures from these guidelines into their clinical performance measures projects.

A survey conducted by a regional office of the CMS to determine whether the surveys being conducted by state agencies (or other groups) are appropriately assessing the facility's operations is known as a _______________________________.​

Which of the following is a document prepared by the interdisciplinary team that evaluates the patient in at least thirteen required areas?

Describe the difference between continuous ambulatory dialysis and continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis?

Federal regulations explicitly state that the patient or designee must sign one of the following documents or the document should explain the reason that the signature was not provided. To which of the following documents does this regulation apply?

_____________________ is a solution used to filter products across a semipermeable membrane by the process of diffusion.​

The best source of data on kidney transplants is available from the ______________.