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Home haemodialysis : trends in technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Self management and home-based dialysis therapies offer the prospect of improved patient experience and outcomes. To allow more patients to realize these benefits requires changes in technology which focus on maximizing the ease and minimizing the ...
Farrington, Ken, Greenwood, Roger
core   +2 more sources

Are adverse events in newly trained home dialysis patients related to learning styles? A single-centre retrospective study from Toronto, Canada

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Home haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) have seen growth in utilisation around the globe over the last few years. However, home dialysis, with its attendant technical complexity and risk of adverse events continues to pose ...
Bourne Lewis Auguste   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Expanding Utilization of Home Dialysis: An Action Agenda From the First International Home Dialysis Roundtable

open access: yesKidney Medicine, 2021
In a groundbreaking meeting, leading global kidney disease organizations came together in the fall of 2020 as an International Home Dialysis Roundtable (IHDR) to address strategies to increase access to and uptake of home dialysis, both peritoneal ...
Mallika L. Mendu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Telehealth: acceptability, clinical interventions and quality of life in peritoneal dialysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Introduction: Telehealth technologies are being widely adopted across the globe for management of long-term conditions. There are limited data on its use, effectiveness and patient experience in end-stage renal disease.
Dey, Vishal   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Thrice weekly nocturnal in-centre haemodiafiltration: a 2-year experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Adequate control of plasma phosphate without phosphate binders is difficult to achieve on a thrice-weekly haemodialysis schedule. The use of quotidian nocturnal dialysis is effective but not practical in the in-centre setting.
Dey, V., Hair, M., Spalding, E. M.
core   +1 more source

The aftermath of coronavirus disease of 2019: devastation or a new dawn for nephrology? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The acute crisis with the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) is the largest biomedical catastrophe of our lifetimes. Like so many other disasters in the past,
Agarwal, Rajiv
core   +2 more sources

Assessment and Management of Hypertension among Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Approximately 7%-10% of patients with ESKD worldwide undergo peritoneal dialysis (PD) as kidney replacement therapy. The continuous nature of this dialytic modality and the absence of acute shifts in pressure and volume parameters is an important ...
Agarwal, Rajiv   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Disparities in dialysis modality decision-making using a social-ecological lens: a qualitative approach

open access: yesBMC Nephrology, 2022
Background Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) may choose to undergo dialysis in-center or at home, but uptake of home dialysis in the US has been minimal despite its benefits over in-center dialysis.
Miriam Vélez-Bermúdez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Peritoneal dialysis in older adults: evaluation of clinical, nutritional, metabolic outcomes, and quality of life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The number of older adults requiring dialysis is increasing worldwide, whereas the use of peritoneal dialysis (PD) in this population is lower respect to younger patients, despite the theoretical advantages of PD respect to hemodialysis.
Aceto, Paola   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Identifying critically important vascular access outcomes for trials in haemodialysis : an international survey with patients, caregivers and health professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND: Vascular access outcomes reported across haemodialysis (HD) trials are numerous, heterogeneous and not always relevant to patients and clinicians. This study aimed to identify critically important vascular access outcomes.
Craig, JC   +24 more
core   +1 more source

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