The US Renal Data System at 30 Years: A Historical Perspective

Fifteen years after the US Congress acted to fund dialysis therapy for most patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), concern about the high mortality among such patients led the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to establish a scientific national registry of patients with ESKD. Thus, the US Renal Data System (USRDS) was initiated in 1988 with funding from NIDDK and support from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), then called the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).

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