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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Planting the Seeds for Patient Centeredness: Tips for Your Home Dialysis Training Program
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I asked those who do home dialysis who post on the Home Dialysis Central Facebook page to make suggestions for the perfect dialysis clinic. Here’s what they suggested.
Published on 04/09/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,
India’s first ever Dialysis Olympiad
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It is our way of showing the world that Dialysis Patients can do everything otherwise healthy people can do.
Published on 02/05/2015 by Kamal Shah
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Home Dialysis: An URBAN State of Mind
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Home dialysis—be it home hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis—is not determined by distance from center, but by distance from mind-set.
Published on 01/29/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
A new Kid(ney) prepares to blast off - the Quanta SC+
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On the 6th January, 2015, Quanta Fluid Solutions put out a press release to announce the success of their application for CE mark approval for their new portable home dialysis system; the Quanta SC+.
Published on 01/15/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
A New Year for Dialysis—Home and In-Center
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Let 2015 be the year that U.S. in-center dialysis outcomes catch up with the rest of the world.
Published on 01/01/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,