Primary Recipient

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$949,994.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The purpose of this research is to compare the effectiveness of alternative management strategies (conservative versus dialytic) in stage V (advanced) chronic kidney disease (CKD). Over the past decade, the median eGFR at which dialysis was initiated in