PEAK CAMPAIGN PROGRESS

According to the 2008 U.S. Renal Dialysis System (USRDS) report, mortality of patients in their first year of dialysis (“first-year mortality”) has changed little since 1999, although overall mortality for ESRD patients has improved. 


In 2005, the latest year for which published data from USRDS are available, community-wide,
annualized first-year mortality was nearly 30%–much of it due to the high mortality in months 2-4.

Using more current data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the USRDS methodology, the PEAK campaign will report the progress toward reaching its goal of improving patient survival of reducing first-year mortality by 20% by the end of 2012.

Check back here to monitor the PEAK Campaign’s progress.