Yale New Haven Hospital

Cardiovascular Risk Prediction with the Kidney Failure Risk Equation in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Study

Background: The Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) is an established tool to predict the risk of kidney failure among patients with CKD. Patients with CKD more often die from cardiovascular (CV) causes than renal causes, and more often experience a non-fatal CV event than progre...

Perspectives on an Intervention to Increase Confidence in Newborn RSV Immunoprophylaxis

OBJECTIVES Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunoprophylaxis is efficacious, yet uptake is low in comparison with other recommended newborn interventions. We aimed to identify barriers to and enablers of implementation of an intervention in the well newborn unit to increase par...