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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My Experience with PD
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Once I learned about PD and how there were no needles or no blood I was sold!
Published on 05/20/2021 by Craig Jacobs
Tags: home-dialysis, goals, surgeries,
How Kidney Failure Enhanced My Life
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About that time, I was asked if I wanted to go on. I decided through a haze of pain killers and sedatives, to keep fighting.
Published on 12/24/2015 by Henry P. Snickelsnorter
Tags: Making dialysis better,
US Haemodiafiltration, Where Art Thou?
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Only in the US is haemodiafiltration almost non-existent, a recent incidence analysis being tagged at just 0.1%.
Published on 12/17/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
U.S. Dialysis Measures – Have We Set Up the Ladder Against the Wrong Wall?
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Two or three years ago at the Annual Dialysis Conference, I was lucky enough to hear thought leader nephrologist Tom Parker III speak on U.S. dialysis measures and clinical practice guidelines.
Published on 05/30/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: goals, strategy, policy, measures, guidelines,
The KDQOL-36: A Team Tool for Plan of Care & Facility-Level Quality Improvement (QAPI)
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I posed that question to the Council of Nephrology Social Workers' listserv. A social work colleague gave me permission to share her comments.
Published on 05/15/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW