How to Talk to Patients About Home Dialysis—4 Steps to Make Life Easier

In this era of Federal support for increasing use of PD and home HD, how can we help more people benefit from home therapies? We’re here for you! A brand new, easy to read, referenced Home Dialysis Central tool will help you to help your patients. Our Sponsors make resources like this possible.

Kidney Views Blog Topics: Join us for our weekly home dialysis blog. Click here to subscribe to new post alerts. Tell us what YOU think—we welcome comments and guest blog posts!

• My Dialysis Empowerment Journey
  05/12 – Lisa Love
• The Best Part about Peritoneal Dialysis is that it is Continuous
  05/05 – Kamal Shah
• Remembering the Indomitable Chris Blagg
  04/28 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• Permission to Thrive—Part 3: Grieve Your Diagnosis
  04/21 – April McGraw, RN, CNN

Pipeline Technology

• Invizius to Assess Way to Protect Peritoneal Membranes
• Axess Shows Promise for Living HD Grafts
• Phraxis, Inc Seeking FDA 510(k) Clearance for InterGraft

Home Dialysis in the News

• PD Reimagined with the New Fresenius Versi 12-lb. Cycler

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Granny On the Go

Industry Updates

• Outset Tablo Could Boost Use of Home Hemodialysis

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Meta-analysis of Omental Procedures with PD Catheter Placement
• Urgent Start PD Takes on Urgent Start HD—Which One Wins?
• Home-to-Home Dialysis Transition
• Early Data from the Physidia Home HD Machine

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If you haven't tried our free, evidence-based dialysis decision aid yet, come on down! The 15-minute tool helps people clarify their values and make a patient-centered choice. Watch this space—a version 2.0 will be released this summer with a new name, a new look, and new features!