Promising Ways to Increase Use of Home Dialysis

A scoping review of 43 studies categorized interventions to increase home dialysis uptake into three categories: education, service provision, and payment modifications. What worked best? Education aimed to enhance dialysis options knowledge and promote shared decision-making among patients, families, and clinicians and providing services like assisted PD. Payment intervention effectiveness depended on context.

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Tags: Home Dialysis, Home Modality, Patient Education, Provision, Home Dialysis Uptake, Shared Decision making

Nephrologist Attitudes Toward Home Therapies Drive Practice

A survey of 327 nephrologists assessed their knowledge, attitudes, and practice around the choices for renal replacement therapy. Attitudes toward PD, HD, and transplant were independently linked to participants’ consideration of these options for patients.

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Tags: Nephrologists Modality Knowledge, Modality Bias, Choices For Renal Replacement Therapy, Modality Choice, Patient Education, Shared Decision making

KDIGO Home Dialysis Controversies Conference

The report from the May, 2021 KDIGO conference on increasing use of PD and home HD has been released. Attendees agreed that shared decision-making was ideal, everyone should have access to home therapies, and alignment of policies and resources must occur to make these goals happen.

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Tags: Modality, Treatment Satisfaction, KDIGO, Shared Decision making