title: Vascular access for hemodialysis.
abstract: Establishing and maintaining adequate vascular access is essential to providing an appropriate dialysis dose in patients with end-stage renal disease. Complications related to vascular access have a significant role in dialysis-related morbidity and mortality. The National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) clinical practice guideline for dialysis access was last updated in 2000 and provides a framework for the optimal establishment and maintenance of dialysis access, and treatment of complications related to dialysis access. This paper reviews the 2000 K/DOQI dialysis access guideline as well as updated information published subsequently.
authors.affiliation: UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Rick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Edmund
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Allen R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Nissenson
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001916:Brachial Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000379:methods*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D014680:Veins / Q000601:surgery*