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Increase the proportion of treated chronic kidney failure patients who have received counseling on nutrition,
treatment choices, and cardiovascular care 12 months
before the start of renal replacement therapy.
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Target: 60 percent.
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Baseline: 45 percent of newly diagnosed patients with treated chronic kidney failure received counseling on nutrition, treatment choices, and cardiovascular care in 1996.
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Target setting method: 33 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)
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Data
source
: U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS), NIH, NIDDK.
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