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.
Unwitting Victims or Informed Medical Consumers? How are Dialysis Patients Viewed by Their Nurses and Staff?
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Dialysis technology and therapy should accommodate the patient's lifestyle, not the other way around. Waiting for death is never a solution.
Published on 06/16/2016 by David Rosenbloom
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Kidney Caucus Letter Repayment Basis
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Can we shake up the way dialysis is done in the U.S. by changing the way it is paid for?
Published on 05/26/2016 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Making dialysis better,
How to Help People with Kidney Disease Keep Their Jobs
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Recently, it has been suggested that the degree to which dialysis clinics help their clients keep their jobs should be a metric used to judge the quality of the care they deliver.
Published on 05/05/2016 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Switching Partners
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I realized how important, almost symbiotic, my relationship with my clinic had become. Next to my fistula, this was an important lifeline, and when, after almost two months, no new had nurse appeared, I felt at sea.
Published on 04/21/2016 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Towards Compassionate Dialysis: Thirst and Hemodialysis Duration
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No, the enemy is not fluid compliance. The enemy is thirst. Thirst is an irresistible urge that we trigger through poorly prescribed dialysis. We, the dialysis professionals, are its manservants and handmaidens.
Published on 04/07/2016 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,