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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.
MEI’s Response to the MACs: Daily Home Hemodialysis is Not Done for “Convenience”
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In this week’s blog post, I am sharing the letter I sent to the MACs in reaction to their proposal to restrict chronic hemodialysis treatments to three per week. Visit Stop the Macs
Published on 12/07/2017 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’ , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
The Modality Mayhem of Modern Dialysis
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The term used in the dialysis world to describe the various available treatment options is “modality”...but—especially in dialysis—“modality” is an increasingly dirty word. Not dirty as in smutty, but dirty as in confused, confusing, and unclear.
Published on 12/01/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
October 15-December 7 Is Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period for Parts C & D
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Did you know that each year people with Medicare have a choice as to whether to keep the type of Medicare they have or switch to another type of Medicare? When patients are looking at their Medicare options, they need to understand the differences
Published on 11/15/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’ , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Is a Patient-Centered Dialysis Behavior Contract Possible?
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Social workers want to know how to motivate patients to behave differently. Some dialysis clinics ask patients who exhibit challenging behaviors to sign a contract to avoid consequences.
Published on 11/09/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Blood Flow Rate, Fistula Integrity, and Optimal Clearance
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Let me place my “take” on fistulas, blood flow rates, optimal clearance of small and middle molecules, and fistula integrity on record. I do this in response to that advocate blood flow rates of 400, 450, and (ye gods!) even 520 ml/min!
Published on 10/26/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: How dialysis works , How to understand ‘bloods’ and other tests, Fistulas, grafts and catheters (including PD), Education issues: for patients and professionals,