Patient and health care professional decision-making to commence and withdraw from renal dialysis: a systematic review of qualitative research. [PDF]
American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, 2015 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To ensure that decisions to start and stop dialysis in ESRD are shared, the factors that affect patients and health care professionals in making such decisions must be understood.
J. Hussain +3 more
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Accepting or declining dialysis: considerations taken into account by elderly patients with end-stage renal disease [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with end-stage renal disease have to make a difficult decision whether or not to start dialysis. This study explores the considerations taken into account by these patients in decision-making regarding renal replacement ...
de Jong, P.E. +8 more
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UK Renal Registry 18th Annual Report : Chapter 12 Epidemiology of Reported Infections amongst Patients Receiving Dialysis for Established Renal Failure in England 2013 to 2014: a Joint Report from Public Health England and the UK Renal Registry [PDF]
, 2016 From 1st May 2013 to 30th April 2014 there were 35 episodes of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia in established renal failure patients on dialysis.
Caskey, Fergus +6 more
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Continued monitoring of acute kidney injury survivors might not be necessary in those regaining an estimated glomerular filtration rate > 60 mL/min at 1 year [PDF]
, 2017 Background. Severe acute kidney injury (AKI) among hospitalized patients often necessitates initiation of short-term dialysis. Little is known about the long-term outcome of those who recover to normal renal function.
Geddes, Colin C. +4 more
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Will Incremental Hemodialysis Preserve Residual Function and Improve Patient Survival? [PDF]
, 2014 The progressive loss of residual renal function in peritoneal dialysis patients is associated with increased mortality. It has been suggested that incremental dialysis may help preserve residual renal function and improve patient survival. Residual renal
Davenport, A
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2016 BackgroundIt is very challenging for resource-limited settings to introduce universal health coverage (UHC), particularly regarding the inclusion of high-cost renal dialysis as part of the UHC benefit package.
Y. Teerawattananon +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 A target Kt/V of > 1.4 and use of a high-flux dialyzer are recommended for patients on hemodialysis. However, there is little information on the relationship between the dialyzer surface area and mortality in these patients.
Masanori Abe +5 more
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Mycopathologia, 2017 Cryptococcosis is a lethal fungal infection mainly caused by Cryptococcus neoformans/C. gattii species. Currently, our understanding of cryptococcosis episodes in HIV-negative patients during renal dialysis remains scarce and fragmented.
Nan Hong +9 more
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Uraemic toxins and new methods to control their accumulation : game changers for the concept of dialysis adequacy [PDF]
, 2015 The current concept of an adequate dialysis based only on the dialysis process itself is rather limited. We now have considerable knowledge of uraemic toxicity and improved tools for limiting uraemic toxin accumulation. It is time to make use of these. A
Glorieux, Griet, Tattersall, James
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Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units. [PDF]
, 2007 Hutchison and colleagues report a 10-year experience of dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK excluding Scotland. Their study is the largest published so far and raises issues of interest to both ICU physicians and ...
Arulkumaran, N +2 more
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