Montez–Rath ME, et al. – Researchers undertook this study to analyze hospital and nursing facility stays in the years pre– and post–dialysis initiation, and to develop a novel method for visualizing these data. The results demonstrated that older patients, especially octogenarians and patients with dementia or other comorbidities, spend a large proportion of time in a facility during the first year after dialysis initiation. Moreover, the heat maps serve a novel and concise visual representation of a large amount of quantitative data regarding expected outcomes after initiation of dialysis.