In the ESRD Measures Support project, Arbor Research and the University of Michigan’s Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (KECC) continue several tasks that they have previously performed for CMS, and perform several new tasks examining dialysis practice across the country:

• Gathering and computing ESRD quality measures and disseminating them to the public.
• Maintaining a comprehensive database of patient- and provider-level ESRD data from virtually all of the relevant CMS data sources.
• Validating the reliability of the measures collected by the Clinical Performance Measures (CPMs) and producing an annual CPM report.
• Producing the Dialysis Facility Reports, which present many of the ESRD quality measures at the facility level, and reporting on selected measures to the CMS Dialysis Facility Compare website.
• Computing the quality measures on CMS’s Dialysis Facility Compare website. Arbor Research and KECC will provide statistical and technical support for this website, which provides detailed information on dialysis and chronic kidney disease to patients and families.
• Providing support for the systematic revision of existing measures and the development of new measures, through extensive literature review and organizing technical expert panels (TEPs).

For information about the ESRD Measures Support project, please contact:

Meenu Suneja
Tel: +1 (734) 665-4108 x294
Fax: +1 (734) 665-2103
esrdmeasures@ArborResearch.org