Rethinking Kidney Supportive Care – More Than Just End-of-Life
Comfort care. Palliative care. Supportive care. All of these terms feel weighty and may have slightly different meanings to healthcare providers. A recent Core Curriculum [...]
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#NephMadness 2020: Patient-Driven Choice for Dialysis – Providing Care That Matters Most to Our Patients
Alvin Moss @AMOSS7 Alvin Moss is a Professor of Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine in the Sections of Nephrology and Geriatrics and Palliative [...]
#NephMadness 2020: Koncicki’s Pick for the Ethics Region – Dialysis for Patients at the End-of-Life
Holly Koncicki @HollyMarieMD Holly Koncicki completed her medicine residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by completion of an integrated fellowship in [...]
Leveraging Patient-Reported Outcomes for Person-Centered Kidney Disease Care
A recent AJKD Narrative Review by Nair and Wilson focuses on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in nephrology research. This topic, which won the 2018 NephMadness, is of [...]
Choosing Wisely: A Decision Aid for Dialysis Therapies to Facilitate Person-Centered Kidney Care
Shared decision-making, an approach in which clinicians and patients partner to evaluate best available evidence for treatment options, discuss risks and benefits, and make [...]
Deciding Not to Dialyze: What Comes Next?
Discussion about renal replacement therapy selection in our patients with CKD is complex, but an important part of any nephrology practice. If we know the patient well, it [...]
Patient-Centered Care – Taking Us Back to Medical School
“Those essential moral questions that plague the sufferer of serious, disabling illness – ‘Why me? Why now? How can I go on with my life?’ and even ‘Who am I [...]
Advancing Patient-Centered Care in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
In a recent study published in AJKD, Oberdhan et al (Open Access) discuss the development of a new health-related quality of life (HRQoL) tool for patients with Autosomal [...]