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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What is an “eGFR,” and Why and When Does it Matter?
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What follows is the discussion I have about diminishing kidney function with my patients.
Published on 04/12/2018 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better
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Dialysis Patient Needs vs. Social Worker Caseloads
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It has been widely reported that depression increases the risk of hospitalization and death for both in-center and home dialysis patients.
Published on 04/05/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
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I Will Not Let This Illness Define Me – Part 2
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Within 2 weeks of running 5 short daily treatments at home, using a much slower pump speed, I started to feel clear headed and energetic and hungry, like I hadn't in years.
Published on 03/15/2018 by Colin Mackay
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals
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Pain Management in Home Dialysis
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The authors found that 60%+ of dialysis patients were prescribed one or more opioids each year, and 20% had at least one 90-day prescription each year.
Published on 02/22/2018 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
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RPA’s New Position Paper on Increasing Dialysis Options is Music to My Ears—Now We Need a Chorus!
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I can’t help suspecting that if the nephrology leadership like the RPA and the CMOs teamed up with patient advocate groups like Home Dialyzors United and AAKP to approach CMS…we just might get where we need U.S. dialysis to be.
Published on 02/15/2018 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute