Integrating peritoneal and home haemodialysis: a nurse's perspective from a single centre.
Rhodes, Carol Beech, Nicola Chesterton, Lindsay Fluck, Richard
Rhodes, Carol
Beech, Nicola
Chesterton, Lindsay
Fluck, Richard
Abstract
Home based dialytic therapy is underutilized in most renal centres. This article describes a nurse led and delivered approach to problem solving from a patient perspective, resulting in an increase in prevalent and incident patient numbers on home HD and peritoneal dialysis. Overall, between 2004 and 2010 home-based therapies have risen from 61 to 119 prevalent patients, with a fall in in-centre patient numbers.
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2011-12
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Article
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Nephrology/Renal medicine
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NDT Plus. 2011 Dec;4(Suppl 3):iii14-iii15. doi: 10.1093/ndtplus/sfr127.