Anemia Management With Darbepoetin-Alfa in Outpatient Hemodialysis Patients Switched From Epoetin-Alfa: A Community Hospital Experience

Epoetin-alfa (EA) and darbepoetin-alfa (DA) are agents for treating anemia in dialysis patients. In September 2005, our free-standing outpatient hemodialysis center (community-hospital based) implemented an interchange from EA to DA. Since then, all hemodialysis patients receive DA as the preferred