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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Nephrology Needs More Compassion—and Less Compliance
(28 comments)
It seems that our community may need a refresher course in compassion.
Published on 05/29/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Introducing the NEW Partner Agreement on Tasks for Home Dialysis (PATH-D) Tools—Comments Welcome!
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Home dialysis of any type is a challenge for consumers and partners in part because when you start to even think about something new, you don’t know what you don’t know.
Published on 05/07/2015 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better,
A Sad Direction in Home Dialysis Research: The FHN 2 Nocturnal Survival Analysis
(6 comments)
The true bête noir here is not the research itself, nor the researchers, but the relatively recent and often quite unrealistic “requirement” of funders, payers, and legislators to slavishly demand—and only act upon—the outcomes of RCTs.
Published on 04/23/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Absurd! EPOCH-RRT Study “Decision Aid” Won’t Include Home Hemodialysis
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In the last 24 hours, the faith I have always had that somewhere, somehow, in the immense firmament of dialysis, I might be able to make a small difference, has been hit by not just one, but two uppercuts.
Published on 04/16/2015 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Planting the Seeds for Patient Centeredness: Tips for Your Home Dialysis Training Program
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I asked those who do home dialysis who post on the Home Dialysis Central Facebook page to make suggestions for the perfect dialysis clinic. Here’s what they suggested.
Published on 04/09/2015 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better,