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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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,
Family as Caregivers
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Family and kidney disease can be complicated. Actually family and most any disease can be complicated, but when dialysis is involved there are no rules.
Published on 01/22/2015 by Nieltje Gedney
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,
Helping Too Little, Too Much—Who Wins and Who Loses?
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Are home training staff and the care partner encouraging the patient to be as independent as possible—or are our expectations influencing who is expected to do what?
Published on 01/08/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
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,
A Holiday Gift to the Planet from the Outback
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... they have set up a sustainable dialysis system that also helps feed their community, provide local jobs and, as an incidental benefit, has created a tempting water-play option for their children, all in one of the driest places on earth.
Published on 12/25/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Partnering with Patients to Manage their Health
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It’s time to use the honey vs. vinegar approach to working with patients. It may help us form more effective relationships and achieve better outcome goals.
Published on 12/18/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
From Nephrology to “Healthcare”: Reflections on Attending the IHI Meeting
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Chronic disease is an enormous healthcare problem—but, as far as I can tell, it is largely ignored by IHI, despite the “health of populations” part of the triple aim.
Published on 12/11/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
In-Center
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"Now that I’m settled into the routine of home hemo treatments, I can take a moment to reflect on what it was like to do dialysis in-center."
Published on 12/04/2014 by Nieltje Gedney