1. Institute of Medicine : Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 2001
2. Leavitt MO: Secretary of Health and Human Services. A Design for a Bundled End Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, 2008. Available at: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/End-Stage-Renal-Disease/ESRDGeneralInformation/downloads/ESRDReportToCongress.pdf. Accessed February 25, 2017
3. Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of: 2008. Medicare, Provisions Relating to Part B; PART II-Other Payment and Coverage Improvements; Section 153: Renal Dialysis Provisions, 110th Congress, H.R. 6331, 2008. Available at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-110hr6331enr/pdf/BILLS-110hr6331enr.pdf. Accessed February 25, 2017
4. Medicare program; end-stage renal disease quality incentive program. Final rule.;Fed Regist,2011
5. Clancy CM: What Is Health Care Quality and Who Decides? Testimony by Carolyn M. Clancy M.D., Director, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services before the Committee on Finance; Subcommittee on Health Care, United States Senate, 2009. Available at: http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2009/03/t20090318b.html. Accessed March 18, 2009