However, patients wanted to see teaching methods and materials improve and biases eliminated. Staff were less aware than patients of how informal staff-patient conversations can influence patients' treatment decision-making. Many staff felt ill equipped to talk about all treatment options in a ...
“I don’t want to be seen denying any citizen access to dialysis” - these words were spoken by a minister of health of a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa when approached by clinicians for guidance as to how to allocate very few dialysis slots at the main teaching hospital in ...
Perhaps we [nephrologists] haven't done as good of a job as we can, or should, in teaching our colleagues about priorities that we need to face and deal with in a hospital setting. So, give this some thought. If you have any comments about professionalism in our field of nephrology, ...
Design:It was a prospective observational study that included chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients who started PD according to medical recommendation: group1-planned and group 2-unplanned PD. Methods:This study evaluated patients who started planned and unplanned PD programs in a teaching hospital ...
We herein retrospectively identified adult patients who underwent their first dialysis due to AKI during the index ICU admission at Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH), a tertiary care teaching hospital in Taiwan with five adult ICUs and a computerized electronic medical record (EMR) system,...
Nutrient intake, diet satisfaction and nutrition status of adult surgical orthopaedic patients admitted at university teaching hospital in Lusaka, Zambia Orthopaedic injuries are common globally with the highest prevalence reported in the sub-Saharan region. In hospitals, malnutrition is a significant proble...
Lori has teaching experience in the health care setting. She has an associate's degree in Nursing and a bachelor's degree in Psychology. In this article you will learn about peritoneal dialysis, indications for treatment, and its management. You will also become familiar with potential complicatio...
This article describes the use of a problem-solving approach in teaching a Science, Technology and Society (STS) issue. A scheme of work is presented which engaged secondary biology pupils in devising treatment methods for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure. Through the problem-solving ...
In addition, it has proven to be an effective tool for ongoing teaching of home-dialysis patients.doi:10.1001/jama.221.8.899Ewald T. SorensenJAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association... ET Sorensen - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 15发表: 1972年...
Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-related infections include PD peritonitis, an important cause of morbidity, mortality, and failure of PD technique leading to a switch to hemodialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease. Others include catheter exit-site in