Searchable patient stories help patients choose a treatment that's best for them

Hi Home Dialysis believers! We've included all of our home dialysis stories in a new, searchable database. Now, patients can see which treatments others like them (in lots of ways) chose to make their lives work. Check it out! And, if you'll be at the ASN meeting in Atlanta this week, come visit our exhibit booth: #339.

KidneyViews Blog Topics

• Teaching treatment options? Watch for teachable moments! – by Dori Schatell, MS – Oct. 31
• The doctor, dialysis, and the Internet – by Dr. John Agar – Oct. 24
• Billing for traveling home dialysis patients – by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW – Oct. 17
• Thank you Terry Oberley! – by Dori Schatell, MS – Oct. 9

Patient Advocacy

• Where can you find a 5-Diamond patient safety program on Buttonhole cannulation? (We'll tell you!)

Home Dialysis in the News

• In what way is home hemodialysis like cooking?
• One home treatment option beat the rest to improve heart function in a new study
• In India, a type of home dialysis is gaining ground...

Pipeline Technology

• New partners plan to build a miniature home HD machine!
• Learn what a self-assembling, nano material might do for you one day
• Ooh, a mobile app approach to help more patients dialyze at home...
• A country with twice as many new dialysis patients/year as the US is aiming small
• Australia technology to get patients home and help them stay there

Industry Updates

• Uh oh – if you have ascites and use a Baxter Home Choice for PD, read this alert
• What can the Fresenius Incident Command Team do for you?
• What has busy Satellite Healthcare been up to?
• A dialysis machine maker opened its first patient care clinic

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

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

• Is there a new way to prevent PD exit site infections? Sorry, honey
• PD First. It makes sense!
• One type of PD catheter offers a significant survival advantage
• The Brits are doing something right in home HD—few patients drop out!
• Stacking up intensive HD against standard in-center HD

Featured Links

Here are some home resources MEI offers that can help you help patients:

• Help, I Need Dialysis! book - the dialysis lifestyle "bible".
• How to Have a Good Future with Kidney Disease - Free CKD education toolkit with 6 decks of slides, objectives, quizzes, and much more.
• Watch the Good Future slides on video - or show them to your patients.
• How about a 3-minute mini-movie on dialysis options - in English and Spanish-for your in-center patients?