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SUBMITTER: Saunders MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3651911 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medical care 20130501 5
<h4>Background</h4>We examined whether dialysis facility characteristics, neighborhood demographics, and region are associated with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dialysis facility quality measures in order to determine the most important targets for intervention.<h4>Methods</h4>We linked US census data to the CMS Dialysis Compare File which contains information for facility outcomes for all CMS-certified dialysis facilities in 2007 (n=5616). We then used linear and logistic re ...[more]