Kidney Care Conflicts of Interest: Penn Medicine Experts Call for Transparency on Joint-Venture Dialysis Clinics
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaPenn Medicine experts in nephrology and health policy call for more transparency about joint-venture ownership of dialysis clinics to better understand what impact these arrangements may have on patient referrals and clinical outcomes. The lack of transparency poses a major barrier for evidence-based health care policy research and deprives patients of critical information, the researchers write in a new Perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine.