Home Dialysis News

Healio has compiled a list of the most-read nephrology-related exclusive features in 2024.

Since 2017, a safety-net health care system in Texas has become a large provider of home peritoneal dialysis to mostly uninsured/undocumented Spanish-speaking patients, with good outcomes, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Jeffrey Silberzweig, MD, FACP, FASN, discusses the work the American Society of Nephrology’s Emergency Partnership Initiative is doing to respond to major health emergencies.

SAN DIEGO — An educational intervention improved dialysis decision-making in veterans with advanced chronic kidney disease, according to data presented at Kidney Week.

SAN DIEGO — Access to home dialysis among patients with disabilities with end-stage kidney disease decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data presented here at ASN Kidney Week.

For some patients, home therapies are preferable to in-center dialysis treatment. This option has been associated with improved patient outcomes and increased overall quality of life for many patients with end-stage kidney disease.

In an editorial published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, nephrologists Mark E. Rosenberg, MD, and Tod Ibrahim, MD, detailed problems the specialty may face in the coming decade.

Patient-centered education and tailored support can promote an uptake of home dialysis among self-identified Hispanic or Latino adults receiving in-center dialysis, according to results of a qualitative study.

A quality improvement intervention successfully boosted education among patients with kidney disease but did not achieve higher home dialysis choice rates, according to study results.