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.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
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,
Haemodialysis: Going Green
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This blog is about a hobby-horse of mine: eco-dialysis or, as I call it, "Green dialysis".
Published on 05/22/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: green, eco, strategy, technology,
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
Are Partners Really Necessary for ALL U.S. Home Hemodialysis Consumers?
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Anecdotally, we at MEI hear that as many as 40% of people who train for short daily hemodialysis (HD) at some clinics drop off of the therapy within a year.
Published on 05/09/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Dialysis: Options Education is NOT Optional (& Tools to Help)
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Almost exactly six years ago, on April 15, 2008, the "new" Conditions for Coverage for Dialysis Facilities was published in the Federal Register.
Published on 05/01/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
The 'Volume-safe Dialysis Duration' KPI
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The following blog explores some simple, utterly naïve and probably crazy thoughts I have had about the development of a 'volume' Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for the day-to-day clinical management of dialysis patients.
Published on 04/24/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: requirements, dialysis, fluid, strategy,
Do YOU Want to Be a Home Dialysis Training Nurse?
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Have you read about how home dialysis offers people with kidney failure a greater sense of control and better physical health and emotional well-being?
Published on 04/18/2014 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: nurse, training, home, requirements,
Seven Ways to Know When Dialysis is Optimal (Not Just "Adequate")
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If you have been reading our blog (and if not, you may want to go back and peek!), you'll see that we are not fans of Kt/V urea as a measure of dialysis "adequacy."
Published on 04/11/2014 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
How Close Are We to Wearable Dialysis?
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The concept of a wearable artificial kidney (WAK) is very good and promising work.
Published on 04/04/2014 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: future, dialysis, kidney, technology,
Rehabilitation Centers and PD: Building Community Partnerships
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Almost immediately after accepting a part-time position in a home dialysis program at the University of Colorado Hospital, I discovered a service gap in the community that was affecting the care of our patients.
Published on 03/27/2014 by Megan R Prescott, LCSW, NSW-C
Tags: training, support, strategy, peritoneal, dialysis,