KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
CMS-5527-P: Comments Submitted on the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model—Hemodialysis
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Six additions to the ETC model would first, materially increase the probability of shifting hemodialysis away from the present institutional in-center model to the lower cost home model
Published on 09/19/2019 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Physician Bedside Manners and Ableism
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Knowing what a patient wants and expects is the basis for all respectful doctor-patient relationships
Published on 09/12/2019 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,
How to Train Home HD Patients for Long-term Success
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From my own long-term observation of patients and training approaches that did and did not succeed, here are several elements that seem to make a difference.
Published on 08/22/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
We Are ALL Patients: The Intersection of Science and Art in Nephrology
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This month, I read one of each, and what I learned was sobering—and applies to how nephrologists and dialysis clinics approach and treat people with kidney failure.
Published on 08/08/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
First, Do No Harm: As We Expand Home Dialysis, Put Patient Values First!
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Fellow advocates, please consider this post a rallying cry to ensure that people with kidney disease benefit from and are not harmed by whatever dialysis changes occur due to the AAKHI.
Published on 07/25/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,