Vascular Access Innovation in a Changing Health Care Environment

An opinion piece describing how global payment systems could potentially incentivize vascular access innovation.

By Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD

How Value-Based Health Care Is Redefining ESRD Management and the Impact to Vascular Specialists

A discussion of how value in dialysis access might be achieved, the potential role of the ESRD Seamless Care Organization, and the impact of new care models on future decision making.

By Scott S. Berman, MD, MHA, FACS

Value-Based Dialysis Access Realized Via Early Cannulation

Dr. David Kingsmore discusses the methods for achieving dialysis access and the challenges in obtaining better outcomes.

With David Kingsmore, MD, MBChB, FRCS

Improving Cost-Effectiveness: How Stent-Grafts Change the Natural History of the Dialysis Access Circuit

Advancing the paradigm for the treatment options of hemodialysis access grafts.

By John E. Aruny, MD, and Belinda A. Mohr, PhD

The Need for Value-Based Outcomes in Future Dialysis Access Device Trials

Defining clinically and economically meaningful outcomes in the new environment of value-based health care.

By Charles E. Ray, MD, PhD

Treating Disadvantaged Venous Anatomy With the GORE® Hybrid Vascular Graft

How the stent-driven venous anastomosis can be used to create and maintain vascular access in challenging dialysis patients.

By Soo Yi, MD; Patricia Rosenberry, MS, BSN; and David B. Leeser, MD, MBA

The High-Cost, Low-Quality Impact of Central Venous Catheters in Dialysis Access

Rethinking the approach to managing ESRD patients with emergent dialysis needs using early cannulation grafts.

By Karl A. Illig, MD

Achieving Durable Outcomes in Dialysis Access With the GORE® VIABAHN® Endoprosthesis

Leading physicians share best practices and discuss how the GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis has contributed to their practices.

With Alejandro Alvarez, MD; Daniel Patel, MD; John R. Ross, MD; and Peter Wayne, MD