Study finds 5-year home HD survival nearly twice that of PD

Home HD led to a far better chance of living 5 years (85%) than PD (44%) among people who started dialysis in Australia and New Zealand, finds a new study. 10,700 people who began PD were compared with 706 who started home HD. NOTE: In Australia and New Zealand, home HD is not done as short daily treatments, as noted in Dr. Agar’s recent blog post.

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• An Open-Source Practical Manual for Home Hemodialysis – 07/08 – Dr. John Agar
• Combating Patient Passivity – 07/02 – David Rosenbloom
• The Risky Concept of Incremental HD in the US – 06/25 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• ESRD & Hospice Care: The Cost of Dialysis – 06/18 – Tami Ramsey, RN
• Health Insurance 101: Options for People with ESRD – 06/12 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

Home Dialysis in the News

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Living Well with Home Treatments

• Home dialysis user bikes across Canada to raise awareness
• “I want the world to see the face of a man thriving and truly living on dialysis”
• Canadian home dialysis couple starts charity to benefit others

Industry Updates

• DaVita to offer home HD in Bengaluru, India
• Who is happy about the new home HD vs. PD survival study?
• NxStage celebrates 10-year anniversary of the System One

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Metaanalysis: PD fluid with fewer GDPs improves outcomes
• Icodextrin PD fluid reduces insulin resistance in non-diabetic patients
• Outcomes of “integrated home dialysis” (PD then home HD)
• Are we finally nearing the end of Kt/V?
• It’s (past) time to avoid 3-day interdialytic intervals
• Implantable microdialysis without dialysate fluid – in rats
• More glucose in PD fluid makes it harder to cure peritonitis

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