Home Dialysis News

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.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A patient on dialysis who lost weight after bariatric surgery was able to reduce the number of home hemodialysis sessions from five to four treatments without adverse outcomes, researchers said here.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Many patients choose home therapy for the flexibility it offers, but not all patients see that as a benefit, according to survey results presented here.

SAN DIEGO — Researchers at Satellite Healthcare and Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a discontinuation risk assessment process to help keep patients on peritoneal dialysis, according to a presentation here.