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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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,
Dialysis: a Duopoly of Solutes and Volume—Not a Solute Monopoly Alone
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It is very exciting to see CMS Clinical Standards and Quality group start to devote some attention to the vital issue of ultrafiltration rate in dialysis and how to optimize care, starting with measuring this critical parameter.
Published on 09/03/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
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,
If I Had an ESCO…
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U.S. health plans most likely don’t come out ahead when people have cancer or need dialysis [...]. These serious illnesses require tremendous resources from the healthcare system—as well as tremendous participation from patients themselves.
Published on 08/20/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
"How much can I drink, Doc?"
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Can we truthfully answer this simple question?
Published on 08/13/2015 by Dr. John Agar
The SONG–HD Initiative: Join in the Chorus!
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The SONG-HD initiative [...] is seeking to broaden the HD information base by asking all who have a stake in dialysis, providers and users alike, to rank the things that matter most to them.
Published on 08/06/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Calling Dialysis Nurses: Be a Hero—Home Dialysis Needs YOU!
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An intriguing pair of Canadian studies has identified nursing beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors as key factors in whether people will be offered home treatments—PD and/or home HD—and will succeed at them if they decide to try.
Published on 07/29/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Reduce Travel Stress for Your Home Dialyzors
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Helping patients live a full life, including travel for work or pleasure, is highly rewarding for dialysis staff and patients alike. Help your patients by making sure everyone knows how to plan a trip with dialysis the low stress way.
Published on 07/23/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: travel,
We are More Than “Patients”: It’s Time for Nephrology to Look at the Whole Person
(8 comments)
It always saddens me to see how many doctors measure only the most basic physical wellbeing of people on dialysis.
Published on 07/16/2015 by Henning Sondergaard
Tags: Making dialysis better,
An Open-Source Practical Manual for Home Hemodialysis
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Over the last 3 years, a global panel […] has painstakingly put together a manual to guide the establishment, administration, and performance of a home HD service.
Published on 07/08/2015 by Dr. John Agar