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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.
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Coping with Death in Dialysis
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Because of their diagnosis, they are especially vulnerable to deaths of patients they’ve known. If staff ignore the death, patients may believe they didn’t care
Published on 08/01/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
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First, Do No Harm: As We Expand Home Dialysis, Put Patient Values First!
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Fellow advocates, please consider this post a rallying cry to ensure that people with kidney disease benefit from and are not harmed by whatever dialysis changes occur due to the AAKHI.
Published on 07/25/2019 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better
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What the Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative (AAKHI) Executive Order May Mean for You
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On July 10, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO)1 that may lead to changes for patients and dialysis clinics and nephrologists.
Published on 07/18/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
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Interpreting eGFR (and Other) Blood Test Results in CKD
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Seeing this has prompted me to write this post to try to correct the clear misconception that a change of a single point in an eGFR spells disaster…or, indeed, spells anything at all.
Published on 07/11/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better
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Incremental Dialysis: Toward a Nuanced Approach
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Much has been written, though agreement remains elusive, about when to start dialysis
Published on 05/09/2019 by Dr. John Agar