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.
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The Risky Concept of Incremental HD in the US
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A new article about incremental HD points out that while we routinely measure residual kidney function in people who do PD (or, at least we are supposed to), this is not routine practice in HD.
Published on 06/25/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
The REAL-WORLD Survival Impact of Home Dialysis
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They had the rare chance to recognise and discuss the limitations of RCTs, and the inapplicability of the RCT model to complex comparisons—like dialysis alone at home vs. dialysis under care in a facility—but they missed it.
Published on 06/04/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Nephrology Needs More Compassion—and Less Compliance
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It seems that our community may need a refresher course in compassion.
Published on 05/29/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Introducing the NEW Partner Agreement on Tasks for Home Dialysis (PATH-D) Tools—Comments Welcome!
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Home dialysis of any type is a challenge for consumers and partners in part because when you start to even think about something new, you don’t know what you don’t know.
Published on 05/07/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
A Sad Direction in Home Dialysis Research: The FHN 2 Nocturnal Survival Analysis
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The true bête noir here is not the research itself, nor the researchers, but the relatively recent and often quite unrealistic “requirement” of funders, payers, and legislators to slavishly demand—and only act upon—the outcomes of RCTs.
Published on 04/23/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,