title: Improve scheduling of fistula patients to slash unnecessary costs, improve care for ESRD.
abstract: When you're dealing with a high-cost illness like ESRD, finding an easy source of six figure savings while enhancing access and quality is a significant accomplishment. But that's exactly what one hospital has done, using a simple strategy that virtually every organization with ESRD patients can adopt.
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D017046:Cost Savings; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D016157:Vascular Fistula / Q000601:surgery*; D014768:Virginia