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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.
Cool Stuff from the 2015 American Society of Nephrology Meeting
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If you didn’t make it to San Diego for this year’s ASN meeting—or you did but didn’t get to the exhibit hall (which was huge!), you might appreciate a quick picture tour of some of the coolest things I saw related to home dialysis.
Published on 11/12/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Let’s Apply Common Sense to Dialysis: More is Better
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Maybe it’s just me. But, taken together, these various findings seem to point in a single direction: the human body works better with cleaner blood, cleaner cells, cleaner tissues.
Published on 10/22/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Is it Time to Revisit Aluminum as a Phosphate Binder?
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There are strong arguments to say that Al(OH)3 was “tarred and feathered” without a fair trial
Published on 10/15/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
It’s (Past) Time to Destroy the Dialysis Business Model
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If you arrive at the point where your nephrologist finally acknowledges the elephant and gets out his prescription pad - ask him, “If it were you, what would you do?”
Published on 09/10/2015 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Making dialysis better,
How Do You Monitor Home Dialysis Experience with Care?
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Would the following questions identify key things patients care about regarding their treatment type, including the services they’re getting from dialysis facilities and supply companies? What else is missing?
Published on 08/27/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,