Kevin Erickson
Baylor College of Medicine, TX·Medicine & Clinical Research
About 750,000 U.S. adults have end-stage kidney disease and need dialysis or a transplant to survive.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
telemedicine
telehealth
hemodialysis
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2027
What they work on
- Measure the uptake of telemedicine by nephrologists and advanced practice providers for in-center maintenance hemodialysis care after COVID-19 waivers, using large administrative dialysis databases.
- Determine whether telehealth use for in-center hemodialysis care changes healthcare costs and patient outcomes such as mortality and hospitalization, through secondary analyses of administrative data.
- Describe patient and provider views of telehealth in in-center hemodialysis through semi-structured interviews with nephrology practitioners.
More about the research
Most receive in-center hemodialysis, in which a machine at a clinic filters the blood several times a week. This care is very costly, and patients often have poor outcomes. In March 2020, COVID-19 emergency waivers first let kidney doctors (nephrologists) and advanced practice providers see hemodialysis patients by telemedicine, up to 4 visits a month. Telemedicine might help by cutting travel and letting clinicians spend more time with the patients who most need it, such as those just out of the hospital. It could also cause harm if it replaces exams that need to happen in person.
Why it matters
When pandemic telehealth waivers end, policymakers and clinicians must decide what role telemedicine should play in dialysis. Evidence on how virtual visits affect costs, hospitalizations and deaths could help guide Medicare payment rules and clinical practice. This could improve care for patients with end-stage kidney disease on in-center hemodialysis.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Vikram Fielding-Singh
Stanford University, CA·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Evaluate how modifiable preoperative hemodialysis parameters relate to postoperative complications such as myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmia and infection, using linked Medicare claims and dialysis-provider electronic health records.
Mariana Murea
Wake Forest University, NC·Medicine & Clinical Research
Compare catheter-free dialysis days, access-related infections and deaths after fistula versus graft placement in a randomized trial of 262 hemodialysis patients aged 65 and older at 6 sites.
Cameron Kaplan
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Quantify how the COVID-19 pandemic changed racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of appropriate primary care, chronic disease management and downstream health outcomes, using longitudinal individual-level claims and billing data.
The school
Baylor College of Medicine: 38 labs on PI Pages, $881M a year on research, 115 research doctorates a year.
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