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Ronald L. Pisoni is affiliated with the Arbor Research Collaborative for Health in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a specialization in nephrology and related subfields such as hematology, emergency medical services, economics and econometrics, and dermatology.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, including dialysis and renal disease management, parathyroid disorders and treatments, central venous catheters and hemodialysis, iron metabolism and disorders, health systems with economic evaluations and quality of life, erythropoietin and anemia treatment, and dermatology and skin diseases.

Ronald L. Pisoni has contributed extensively to the following recent papers:

  • Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Infection Rates and Outcomes: Results From the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS), 2020, published in American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Burden of Kidney Disease, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Employment Among Patients Receiving Peritoneal Dialysis and In-Center Hemodialysis: Findings From the DOPPS Program, 2021, published in American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Self-reported Pruritus and Clinical, Dialysis-Related, and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients, 2020, published in Kidney Medicine
  • Variation in Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis Outcomes in the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS), 2021, published in American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Adherence to the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes CKD Guideline in Nephrology Practice Across Countries, 2020, published in Kidney International Reports

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Bruce Robinson
  • Brian Bieber
  • Jeffrey Perl
  • Roberto Pecoits-Filho
  • Keith McCullough

Ronald L. Pisoni publishes regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney Medicine
  • Kidney International Reports

Best Publications

  • US Renal Data System 2018 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States.

    Rajiv Saran;Bruce Robinson;Kevin C. Abbott;Lawrence Y.C. Agodoa

  • US Renal Data System 2016 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States

    Rajiv Saran;Bruce Robinson;Kevin C. Abbott;Lawrence Y.C. Agodoa

  • US Renal Data System 2015 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States.

    Rajiv Saran;Yi Li;Bruce Robinson;Kevin C. Abbott

  • US Renal Data System 2014 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States

    Rajiv Saran;Yi Li;Bruce Robinson;John Ayanian

  • Mortality Risk for Dialysis Patients With Different Levels of Serum Calcium, Phosphorus, and PTH: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

    Francesca Tentori;Margaret J. Blayney;Justin M. Albert;Brenda W. Gillespie

  • US Renal Data System 2017 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States

    Rajiv Saran;Bruce Robinson;Kevin C. Abbott;Lawrence Y.C. Agodoa

  • VASCULAR ACCESS USE IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES: RESULTS FROM THE DOPPS

    Ronald L. Pisoni;Eric W. Young;Dawn M. Dykstra;Roger N. Greenwood

  • Predictors and consequences of altered mineral metabolism: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study

    Eric W. Young;Justin M. Albert;Sudtida Satayathum;David A. Goodkin

  • US Renal Data System 2019 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States

    Rajiv Saran;Bruce Robinson;Kevin C. Abbott;Jennifer Bragg-Gresham

  • Vascular access use and outcomes: an international perspective from the dialysis outcomes and practice patterns study

    Jean Ethier;David C. Mendelssohn;Stacey J. Elder;Takeshi Hasegawa

  • Pruritus in haemodialysis patients: international results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

    Ronald L. Pisoni;Björn Wikström;Stacey J. Elder;Tadao Akizawa

  • Anaemia in haemodialysis patients of five European countries: association with morbidity and mortality in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

    Francesco Locatelli;Ronald L. Pisoni;Christian Combe;Juergen Bommer

  • Predictors of Early Mortality among Incident US Hemodialysis Patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

    Brian D. Bradbury;Rachel B. Fissell;Justin M. Albert;Mary S. Anthony

  • Anemia management and outcomes from 12 countries in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS).

    Ronald L Pisoni;Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham;Eric W Young;Tadao Akizawa

  • Incidence and risk factors for hip or other bone fractures among hemodialysis patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study

    Michel Jadoul;J.M. Albert;Takashi Akiba;Tadao Akizawa

  • MORTALITY AND HOSPITALIZATION IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS IN FIVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: RESULTS FROM THE DIALYSIS OUTCOMES AND PRACTICE PATTERNS STUDY (DOPPS)

    Hugh C. Rayner;Ronald L. Pisoni;Juergen Bommer;Bernard Canaud

  • Screening for depression in hemodialysis patients: associations with diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes in the DOPPS.

    Antonio Alberto Lopes;Justin M. Albert;Eric W. Young;Sudtida Satayathum

  • Factors affecting outcomes in patients reaching end-stage kidney disease worldwide: differences in access to renal replacement therapy, modality use, and haemodialysis practices.

    Bruce M Robinson;Tadao Akizawa;Kitty J Jager;Peter G Kerr

  • Creation, cannulation and survival of arteriovenous fistulae: Data from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study

    Hugh C. Rayner;Ronald L. Pisoni;Brenda W. Gillespie;David A. Goodkin

  • US Renal Data System 2016 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States (vol 69, pg s7, 2017)

    Rajiv Saran;Bruce Robinson;Kevin C Abbott;Lawrence Yc Agodoa

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich K. Port
Friedrich K. Port University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bruce G. Robinson
Bruce G. Robinson University of Sydney
Hal Morgenstern
Hal Morgenstern University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brenda W. Gillespie
Brenda W. Gillespie University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shunichi Fukuhara
Shunichi Fukuhara Kyoto University
Roberto Pecoits-Filho
Roberto Pecoits-Filho Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
Michel Jadoul
Michel Jadoul Université Catholique de Louvain
Francesco Locatelli
Francesco Locatelli University of Pavia
Masafumi Fukagawa
Masafumi Fukagawa Tokai University
Yun Li
Yun Li University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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