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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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