Publications by authors named "Kaitlyn Repeck"
Importance: The original Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) model provided financial incentives to home health agencies for quality improvement in 9 randomly selected US states.
Objective: To evaluate quality, utilization, and Medicare payments for home health patients in HHVBP states compared with those in comparison states.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study was conducted in 2021 with secondary data from January 2013 to December 2020.
Rationale & Objective: As the proportion of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) compared with arteriovenous grafts (AVGs) in the United States has increased, there has been a concurrent increase in interventions. We explored AVF and AVG maturation and maintenance procedural burden in the first year of hemodialysis.
Study Design: Observational cohort study.
Rationale & Objective: Comparisons of outcomes between in-center hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) are confounded by selection bias because PD patients are typically younger and healthier and may have received longer predialysis care. We compared first-year survival between what we hypothesized were clinically equivalent groups; namely, patients who initiate maintenance HD using an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and those selecting PD as their initial modality.
Study Design: Observational, registry-based, retrospective cohort study.
Background: Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are the preferred form of hemodialysis vascular access, but maturation failures occur frequently, often resulting in prolonged catheter use. We sought to characterize AVF maturation in a national sample of prevalent hemodialysis patients in the United States.
Study Design: Nonconcurrent observational cohort study.