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Cover JAMA study finds better health outcomes and lower mortality rate for undocumented immigrants with scheduled dialysis
JAMA study finds better health outcomes and lower mortality rate for undocumented immigrants with scheduled dialysis
ASN Staff

JAMA Internal Medicine published findings this month that found when “compared with emergency-only dialysis, scheduled dialysis significantly reduced 1-year mortality, hospitalizations, and costs among undocumented immigrants with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). However, in “40 of 50 US states, scheduled dialysis is withheld from undocumented immigrants with ESRD; instead, they receive intermittent emergency-only dialysis to treat life-threatening manifestations of ESRD’”.